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German author, visual artist and sculptor (1927–2015)

Günter Wilhelm Grass (German:[ˈɡʏntɐˈɡʁas]^ⓘ;^[1][2] 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.^[3][4][5][6]

He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).

At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS. He was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946.

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Novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, painter and sculptor, he was seen as “the conscience morality of the German nation", having become a member, in

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Günter Grass has described himself as a “Spätaufklärer”, a belated apostle of enlightenment in an era that has grown tired of reason.

In the book, Grass peels the onion of memory, revealing how, at the age of 17, he wanted to join the navy but was drafted into the SS and.

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