Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the ''Waffen-SS.'' He was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.
Grass is best known for his first novel, ''The Tin Drum'' (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being ''Cat and Mouse'' and ''Dog Years''. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
''The Tin Drum'' was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded Grass the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history". Provided by Wikipedia
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From the diary of a snail. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Inmarypraise by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Dog years. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Die Blechtrommel : Roman / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Katz und Maus; eine novelle. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Die Vorzüge der Windhühner. [Gedichte, Prosa und Zeichnungen. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Hundejahre : Roman / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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The flounder / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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The meeting at Telgte / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Local anaesthetic. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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On writing and politics, 1967-1983 / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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The rat / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Werkausgabe : in Zehn Bänden / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Too far afield / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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My century / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Cat and mouse. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Katz und Maus / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Peeling the onion / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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Ein weites Feld : Roman / by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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The tin drum. by Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
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