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  Heinrich Böll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers.
When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union, he first took refuge in Heinrich Böll's house.
Heinrich Böll died in 1985 at the age of 67.
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 Heinrich Boll on Achill Island, Ireland - p1
Heinrich Boll, the Nobel Prize winning novelist, was a regular visitor to Achill Island in the west of Ireland from the late 1950s to the 1970s.
Heinrich Boll stayed at a cottage near Dugort on the north of Achill Island, now known as Heinrich Boll's Cottage and provided as a retreat for other artists and writers on Achill Island.
Heinrich Böll first travelled to Achill Island in the early 1950s, crossing the country by train from Dublin to Westport with his family.
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 Amazon.ca: Billiards at Half Past Nine: Books: Heinrich Boll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Boll felt the need to add something else to it, and it is there that the mystery comes into play.
In the opening scenes, Heinrich's son Robert, the present scion of the Faehmel dynasty, tells his maid that, while he is playing Billiards at a local hotel, he is only to be disturbed by certain people.
Heinrich Boll describes Robert Faehmel as a man who is percieved by his peers as armour-like and unflinching.
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 The conscience of a nation
Although he hated the label, Boll functioned as "the conscience of the nation" in that he persistently attacked public hypocrisy and his fellow countrymen's propensity for selective amnesia about the past.
Boll's unwelcome reminders of darker continuities were closely associated with his sympathy for contemporary victims: political refugees, the unemployed, dissidents and nonconformists of all kinds.
Since Heinrich Boll's death in 1985, seven schools and one of the finest squares in his native city of Cologne have been named after him.
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 Heinrich Boll - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
Heinrich Boll was the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929.
Born in Cologne, in 1917, Boll was reared in a liberal Catholic, pacifist family.
Boll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading de fender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world.
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 AllRefer.com - Heinrich BOll (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
BOll presents a critical, antimilitarist view of modern society in a collection of masterful short stories, Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa• • • (1950; tr.
Humanity's excesses and its inability to alter his destiny are among BOll's principal concerns in the narratives Und sagte kein einziges Wort (1953; tr.
BOll won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972.
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 TomFolio.com: by Heinrich BOLL
Boll, Heinrich translated from German by Leila Vennewitz The End of A Mission Publisher: Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1977 reprint..
Boll, Heinrich translated from German by Leila Vennewitz Group Portrait with Lady Publisher: Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1977 reprint..
Boll, Heinrich translated by Leila Vennewitz Adam and The Train (two novels in one volume) Publisher: New York: McGraw Hill, 1974..
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 Amazon.com: The Stories of Heinrich Boll (European Classics): Books: Heinrich Boll,Leila Vennewitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Until his recent death, Boll was the preeminent chronicler of Germany's agonizing rebirth in the latter 20th century.
Heinrich Boll gives a revealing look into WWII from a German soldier's point of view.
Boll shows a beautiful touch in presenting the horror of WWII and its aftermath.
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 Boll, Heinrich 1917 books, find the lowest prices
The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Boll : Social Conscience and Literary Achievement
Heinrich Boll, Die Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum : Oder, Wie Gewalt Entstehen Und Wohin Sie Fuhren Kann
Dualitat, Humanitat Und Utopie in Heinrich Bolls Roman Ansichten Eines Clowns
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 Heinrich Boll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, Heinrich Boll was one of the greatest novelists of the German experience in the 2nd World War.
Boll's first book, The Silent Angel, has just recently been published.
If your daily routine included Billiards at Half-past Nine, you to would be adverse to change.
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 Heinrich Boll - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Heinrich Boll - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Böll, Heinrich (1917-1985), German novelist and Nobel laureate, a major figure in German literature published after World War II (1939-1945)....
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 Heinrich Boll Stiftung
Welcome to the website of the Southern Africa office of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung.
The Heinrich Böll Stiftung is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental foundation from Germany.
It is affiliated with the Green Party of Germany and has its headquarters in Berlin.
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 Heinrich Böll
In 1971 appeared Group Portrait With a Lady, which was again formally innovative: it was composed from interviews and documents about Leni Pfeiffer, through whom the lives of some sixty other characters are depicted.
Boll parodied fashionable documentary novels, but also used the dead language of real documents of Nazi bureaucracy.
Böll's works were popular in the Soviet Union, but he was also active in PEN, through witch he supported the rights of authors under Communist repression.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hboll.htm   (1624 words)

  
 Heinrich Böll Foundation Nigeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Government's invitation to a broad public debate about NEEDS came on a rather short notice, but in the meantime it has begun to take off.
TONI KAN ON HEINRICH BÖLL Lagos-based writer Toni Kan Onwordi was on a four-month "artist in residence" scholarship at the Heinrich Böll House in Langenbroich, Germany, in late 2003.
The visit provided an opportunity for Toni Kan to work on his next novel "The Doctor, His Wife, and her Lover", which is due for publication in Nigeria in spring 2004.
www.boellnigeria.org   (1129 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bll, Heinrich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bll, Heinrich
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 Heinrich Boll Message Board
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What was your favorite scene in Heinrich Boll's books?
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 Heinrich Boll Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature
Heinrich Boll Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature
pieces of information about H. Boll's life and works (submitted by carla gaiba)
Heinrich Boll Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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 Heinrich Böll
Böll won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972.
The obsession to destroy monuments: Mishima and Boll.
Dam Fighters Win the Boll Bowl.(Heinrich Boll Foundation environmental award)(Brief Article)
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 Literature of the Holocaust HOME PAGE (Filreis)
The Believer: a film about a Jewish teenager who joins his skinhead friends
Heinrich Boll: brief overview of his writings from a review of recent work
The first international war crimes trial in 50 years opened on May 7, 1996, with a Bosnian Serb accused of taking part in a systematic reign of terror, described by a prosecutor as ''events of unspeakable horror.' (New York Times, May 7, 1996)
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html   (2806 words)

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