Günter Grass - Wikipedia
WebGünter 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 …
Gunter Grass | Biography, Works, & Facts | Britannica
WebApr 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 …
The Tin Drum - Wikipedia
WebThe Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy …
Günter Grass Dies at 87; Writer Pried Open Germany’s Past but …
WebApril 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...
Günter Grass – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
WebBiographical. Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr of Polish-German parents. After military service and captivity by American forces 1944-46, he worked as a farm labourer and miner and studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin. 1956-59 he made his living as a sculptor, graphic artist and writer in Paris, and subsequently Berlin.
Günter Grass, Who Confronted Germany's Past As Well As His Own ... - NPR
WebApr 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...
Günter Grass obituary | Günter Grass | The Guardian
WebMon 13 Apr 2015 08.57 EDT. 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...
How I Spent the War | The New Yorker
WebBy Gunter Grass. May 28, 2007. Grass, right, in 1944, at sixteen, when he was drafted into the Labor Service. Photograph by Karl-Heinz Kalkbrenner. In 1943, when I was a fifteen-year-old...
Günter Grass – Interview - NobelPrize.org
WebGünter Grass talks about the purpose of literature; how history is presented in his books; his way of focusing on everyday details; the power of literature; the demonic concept in his books; the mixture of fantasy and realism in his texts; and how his characters often come alive. Interview transcript (English translation)
Günter Grass, Nobel-Winning Author Of 'The Tin Drum,' Dies At …
WebApr 13, 2015 · Novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel laureate who is perhaps best known for his novel The Tin Drum and who shocked his country when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen SS in...
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