Günter Grass

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Günter 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.

Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). In May 1945, after brief service as a teenaged soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces and released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, he 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, which includes 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. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".

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Katz und Maus

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Der Butt

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Danziger Trilogie

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Hundejahre

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Telling Times

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Potkanka (The Rat)

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Peeling the Onion

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Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic

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Im Krebsgang

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Too Far Afield

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Örtlich betäubt

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Unkenrufe

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Mein Jahrhundert

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Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out

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Das Treffen in Telgte

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Die Box: Dunkelkammergeschichten

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From The Diary Of A Snail

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The Günter Grass Reader

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Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

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Four Plays

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Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993

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On Writing and Politics: 1967-1983

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Zunge zeigen

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Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community

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Max: A Play

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The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Penguin Plays)

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The Living Statue: A Legend

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Des Knaben Wunderhorn

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Speak Out!: Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries

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