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Biography of Günter GrassName: Günter GrassBirth Date: October 16, 1927 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Danzig, Germany Nationality: German Gender: Male Occupations: novelist, playwright, poet, author Günter Grass The German novelist, playwright, and poet Günter Grass (born 1927) is internationally known as one of the most important literary figures of postwar Germany; he is also known as an exemplar of his own saying, "The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open." He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for literature.Born in the free city of Danzig (Now Gdansk, Poland) on Oct. 16, 1927, Günter Grass was strongly influenced by the political climate of Germany in the era following the disasters of World War I. A Hitler "cub" at 10 and member of the "youth movement" at 14, the boy was infused with Nazi ideology. At 15 he served as an air force auxiliary; he was called to the front and was wounded in 1945. Confined to a hospital bed and then a prisoner of war, Grass later was forced to view the liberated Dachau concentration camp. He left the …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Nevertheless, at the end of the year more than 175,000 copies were in print and the book was at the top of Germany's best-seller lists.Grass was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature for The Tin Drum.The Swedish Academy felt the novel would become "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." Though the Academy cited The Tin Drum, the award was given in recognition of Grass's body of work. Associated Works The Danzig Trilogy Further Reading An early book in English on Günter Grass is W. Gordon Cunliffe, Günter Grass (1969). Other works on Glass include Ray Lewis White,Günter Grass in American: The Early Years (1981); Richard H. Lawson,Günter Grass (1985); Patrick O'Neil, Critical Essays on Günter Grass(1987); Michael Hollington, Günter Grass: The Writer in a Pluralist Society (1987); Alan Frank Keele, Understanding Günter Grass (1988). |