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This week's writer: Heinrich Boll - Germany's best-selling and often controversial writer. When Boll was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972 for his novel Group Portrait with Lady, part of the prize money was used to set up a fund to help the families of persecuted writers. It was with Boll that Alexander Solzhenitsyn stayed first when he left the Soviet Union. Heinrich Boll's latest novel, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, is about a young innocent girl whose life is ruined by the distortions of the popular press. In a rare interview filmed recently in his home in Cologne, Heinrich Boll talks about this novel and his other work.