Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll was born in Cologne, German Empire on 21 December 1917. He was was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. 

His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he remains one of Germany's most widely read authors. His best-known works are Billiards at Half-past Nine (1959), And Never Said a Word (1953), The Bread of Those Early Years (1955), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974), and The Safety Net (1979).

Despite the variety of themes and content in his work, there are certain recurring patterns: many of his novels and stories describe intimate and personal life struggling to sustain itself against the wider background of war, terrorism, political divisions, and profound economic and social transition. In a number of his books there are protagonists who are stubborn and eccentric individualists opposed to the mechanisms of the state or of public institutions.

Heinrich Böll died in 16 July 1985 at the age of 67.

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)

THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (1974

THE TRAIN WAS ON TIME (1949)

THE SAFETY NET (1979)

THE BREAD OF THESE EARLY YEARS (1955)

CHRISTMAS NOT JUST ONCE A YEAR (1952)

AND WHERE WERE YOY, ADAM? (1957)

THE CLOWN (1963)