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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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The Tin Drum 067972575X Book Cover

The Tin Drum

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Katz und Maus 0451098552 Book Cover

Katz und Maus

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Hundejahre 015626112X Book Cover

Hundejahre

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Danziger Trilogie 0151238162 Book Cover

Danziger Trilogie

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Peeling the Onion 0156035340 Book Cover

Peeling the Onion

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$5.69 - $22.04

Im Krebsgang 0151007640 Book Cover

Im Krebsgang

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Telling Times 0312424043 Book Cover

Telling Times

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Der Butt 0156319357 Book Cover

Der Butt

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$4.99 - $23.85

Potkanka (The Rat) 0151759200 Book Cover

Potkanka (The Rat)

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$4.79 - $19.86

Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic 0886191246 Book Cover

Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic

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Too Far Afield 0156014165 Book Cover

Too Far Afield

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Örtlich betäubt 1127540726 Book Cover

Örtlich betäubt

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The Günter Grass Reader 0156029928 Book Cover

The Günter Grass Reader

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$4.69 - $18.17

From The Diary Of A Snail 0151338000 Book Cover

From The Diary Of A Snail

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Zunge zeigen 0156823306 Book Cover

Zunge zeigen

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Unkenrufe 0151257434 Book Cover

Unkenrufe

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Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out 0156399954 Book Cover

Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out

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Mein Jahrhundert 0571203124 Book Cover

Mein Jahrhundert

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$4.19 - $16.71

Das Treffen in Telgte 0156585758 Book Cover

Das Treffen in Telgte

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$5.39 - $12.95

Four Plays 0156331500 Book Cover

Four Plays

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Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland: Tagebuch 1990 0547364601 Book Cover

Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland: Tagebuch 1990

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Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community 081431662X Book Cover

Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community

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$5.49 - $6.29

In the Egg and Other Poems (Harvest Book ; 352) 0156722399 Book Cover

In the Egg and Other Poems (Harvest Book ; 352)

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$6.69 - $14.54

Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones 0140075658 Book Cover

Granta 12: The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

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$10.69 - $18.91

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Penguin Plays) B0006BOH5M Book Cover

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Penguin Plays)

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$5.19 - $13.81

Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993 0156003317 Book Cover

Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993

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Die Box: Dunkelkammergeschichten 0547577648 Book Cover

Die Box: Dunkelkammergeschichten

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$5.19 - $14.56

Vonne Endlichkait 054478538X Book Cover

Vonne Endlichkait

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$7.89 - $8.79

Poems of Günter Grass B0006E03LQ Book Cover

Poems of Günter Grass

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Speak Out!: Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries 0156847167 Book Cover

Speak Out!: Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries

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