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Nobel Prize

Germany · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1908–2009Date range
5Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1908

Rudolf Eucken1908

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1929

Thomas Mann1929

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1972

Heinrich Theodor Boll1972

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1999

Gunter Grass1999

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

2009

Herta Müller2009

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry and prose depicting the landscape of the dispossessed.

Names involved

Gunter GrassHeinrich Theodor BollHerta MüllerRudolf EuckenThomas Mann

Provenance

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