| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1961 |
| Number: | 20 - 2 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Heinrich Böll |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1917 |
| Year, Death: | 1985 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Hermann J Weigand |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of German Language |
| University: | Yale University |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |