Boll and Grass

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Boll and Grass

Description: Heinrich Boll and Gunter Grass, 1968

Heinrich Boll: Böll was born in Cologne, Germany to a liberal, Catholic, pacifistic family. He successfully resisted joining the Hitler Youth during the 1930s. He was apprenticed in a bookseller, then studied German at the University of Cologne. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served in France, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union, and was wounded four times before he was captured by Americans in April 1945 and sent to a POW camp. His wounds (he had lost all his toes to frostbite) made him a regular in hospitals until the end of his life. Böll became a full-time writer at the age of 30. His first novel, Der Zug war pünktlich (The Train Was on Time), was published in 1949. Many other novels, short stories, radio plays and essay collections followed, and in 1972 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first German-born author to receive this award since Hermann Hesse in 1946. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he is one of Germany's most widely read authors. His best-known works are Billiards at Half-past Nine, The Clown, Group Portrait with Lady, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, and The Safety Net.

Put your friend in the picture with the stars! This is the one gift you can guarantee that no-one else will have. You send, upload or email us a photo of your friend and we will seamlessly merge it into a high-quality A4-sized photo with their heroes. The picture can be mounted in a frame of your choice (16inch x 12inch) with double mounts, in a special Famous Friends presentation box.

Photo Ref: 1865

buy Price: £29.00
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The picture surpassed our expectations - it's brilliant and thanks for the remarkable turnaround.
Lesley Farrall, Ascot, October 2007
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