Günter Grass, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1927

Place of Birth: Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Apr-2015

Profession: screenwriter, poet, altar server, playwright, illustrator, lyricist, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, novelist, essayist, autobiographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Günter Grass

  • Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: ['g?nt? 'g?as]; 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 Gdansk, Poland).
  • As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken 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 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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