Novelist Heinrich Boll

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Heinrich Boll

Living place: Cologne

Birthday: 21-12-1917

Global rank: #67014

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Who is Novelist Heinrich Boll?
German author best known for his best-known works including Billiards at Half-past Nine, Cakes of the Early Years, Group Portraits with Lady, and The Safety Net. He was 1972 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His works have been translated into thirty languages.

Young / Before famous

He grew up in Germany and was forced into the Wehrmacht despite having previously turned down the opportunity to join the Hitler Youth. He published his first novel, The Train of Time, in 1949.

Family life info

He was born into a German Catholic family that opposed fascism. He studied German at the University of Cologne.

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He gave refuge to fellow author and Nobel laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, when Solzhenitsyn was expelled from Russia.

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When was Novelist Heinrich Boll born?
Heinrich Boll was born in 21-12-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Novelist Heinrich Boll's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Heinrich Boll was born in Cologne, of Germany. Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Heinrich Boll's global rank is 67014 and whose rank is 660 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1917 and 21-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Heinrich Boll

  • First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
  • Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
  • World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
  • Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
  • Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday Heinrich Boll (21-12) in history

  • Day 21-12 year 1620: Pilgrims on the Mayflower sailboat landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • Day 21-12 year 1891: The first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith, was played.
  • Day 21-12 year 1898: Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
  • Day 21-12 year 1913: The first crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World.
  • Day 21-12 year 1937: Disney's Snow White, the first feature length color and sound cartoon, premiered.
  • Day 21-12 year 1970: Elvis Presley met with president Richard Nixon in the White House.
  • Day 21-12 year 1988: A terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
  • Day 21-12 year 1991: Eleven of the former Soviet republics form the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • Day 21-12 year 1995: Palestinians took over the control of the city of Bethlehem.
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