Nobel Laureate, Gunter Grass was born in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1927. He served in the second world war, where he was wounded and sent to an American prison-camp. After the war, he studied sculpture and became politically active in the Social-Democratic party in Berlin.
Grass is best known as the author of The Tin Drum. In 1999, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gunter Grass's fiction includes:
The Tin Drum 1970
The Flounder 1980
The Rat 1987
Cat and Mouse 1997
Dog Years 1997
My Century 2001
Crabwalk 2004
The Tin Drum 1970
The Flounder 1980
The Rat 1987
Cat and Mouse 1997
Dog Years 1997
My Century 2001
Crabwalk 2004
Nationality:
German
Notable Work:
The Tin Drum, 1970
Dates:
(1927- )
