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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Heinrich Theodor Böll was born on 21 December 1917 and became one of Germany's foremost writers in the decades after World War II. His work captured the landscape of a country rebuilding itself, earning him the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967. Five years later, in 1972, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died on 16 July 1985.