FTP name this 1972 Nobel Prize winner and author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
This author, embittered by his service in WWII, became more polemical as time went on. His Adam, Where Art Thou? is an account of the horrors of war, and Absent Without Leave decries militarism. In The Clown, he indicted postwar materialism, while he traced the declining fortunes of a widow in pre- and post-war Germany in Group Portrait of a Lady. FTP name this 1972 Nobel Prize winner and author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
This author, embittered by his service in WWII, became more polemical as time went on.
Heinrich Boll