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Günter Grass bibliography. Günter Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German writer, sculptor and graphic artist. He had an international breakthrough as a novelist with his Danzig Trilogy (1959–1963). He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1965 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.
Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ⓘ; 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.
The Danzig Trilogy ( German: Danziger Trilogie) is series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass. The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland ). The three books in the trilogy are: The Tin Drum ( Die Blechtrommel ), published in 1959.
ISBN. 347286480X. The Meeting at Telgte ( German: Das Treffen in Telgte) is a 1979 novel by the West German writer Günter Grass. The narrative revolves around a fictional meeting for intellectuals hosted by Simon Dach during the Thirty Years' War. The story combines a depiction of leading seventeenth-century literary figures with an analogy ...
My Century. My Century ( German: Mein Jahrhundert, 1999) is a novel written by German author Günter Grass. Having published many significant novels in the postwar period, he was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature . Each chapter in My Century is only a few pages long. Each focuses on a single year from 1900 to 1999.
The Tin Drum. Categories: German novels by writer. Works by Günter Grass. 20th-century German novels.
The Tin Drum. The Tin Drum ( German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. To "beat a tin drum" means to create a ...
Nobel Prize in Literature. · 2000 →. The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German writer Günter Grass (1927–2015) "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." [1] He is the eighth German author to become a recipient of the prize after Heinrich Böll in 1972 .