Nobel Prize for Literature, conferred annually in October. German recipients (including Swiss who write in German) are: Th. Mommsen (1902), R. Eucken (1908), P. Heyse (1910), G. Hauptmann (1912), C. Spitteler (1919), Th. Mann (1929), H. Hesse (1946), Nelly Sachs (1966), H. Böll (1972), and E. Canetti (1981).

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