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complete name:

Günter Wilhelm Grass

nobel prize:

literature

award year:

1999

prize share:

Prize share: 1/1

rational:

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 was awarded to Günter Grass "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history."

biography:

Biography

laureate facts:

Facts

laureate lecture:

Lecture

birth name:

Günter Wilhelm Grass

given name:

Günter

family name:

Grass

occupation:

screenwriter

occupation:

poet

occupation:

altar server

occupation:

playwright

occupation:

lyricist

occupation:

painter

occupation:

sculptor

occupation:

graphic artist

occupation:

novelist

occupation:

essayist

occupation:

autobiographer

notable work:

Dog Years

notable work:

The Rat

notable work:

The Tin Drum

notable work:

Crabwalk

notable work:

Cat and Mouse

notable work:

What Must Be Said

notable work:

The Call of the Toad

notable work:

Letzte Tänze

description:

Günter Wilhelm Grass 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). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS, and was taken prisoner of war by U.S. 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".

pronunciation:

(German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas])

image copyright:

Photo: H. Grunert

image citation:

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1999/summary/>

date birth:

1927

date death:

2015

usual name:

Günter Grass