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Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ⓘ; 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).
- German
- 13 April 2015 (aged 87), Lübeck, Germany
- 1956–2013
Apr 9, 2024 · Günter Grass (born October 16, 1927, Danzig [now Gdańsk, Poland]—died April 13, 2015, Lübeck, Germany) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker who, with his extraordinary first novel Die Blechtrommel (1959; The Tin Drum ), became the literary spokesman for the German generation that grew up in the Nazi era and ...
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Apr 13, 2015 · Günter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner whom many called his country’s moral conscience but who stunned Europe when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member...
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Apr 13, 2015 · Günter Grass, who has died aged 87, was Germany’s best-known postwar novelist, a man of titanic energy and zest who, besides his fiction-writing, enjoyed the cut and thrust of political debate...
Apr 13, 2015 · Günter Grass wrote more than 30 plays, novels, books of poems, essays and memoirs. He was also a visual artist and sculptor. He won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of undisclosed...
Apr 18, 2015 · Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence. Truth-teller, controversialist, affectionate friend – above all, ingenious and inspirational novelist … Orhan Pamuk, John Irving and other writers...
Günter Grass is widely considered one of Germany’s most important postwar writers and intellectuals. He was born and raised in Danzig, then known as “the Free City of Danzig”; his parents fled their home in 1945 when the city became Polish Gdańsk. Grass studied sculpture in Düsseldorf and at the…
