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August 1977. Published in English. November 1978. Pages. 693. ISBN. 3-472-86069-3. The Flounder ( German: Der Butt, pronounced [deːɐ̯ bʊt] ⓘ) is a 1977 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It is loosely based on the fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife".
Poems. (Hesse collection) Poems is a collection of 31 poems written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1899 and 1921. They were selected and translated to English by James Wright in 1970 from Die Gedichte, which was published in German in 1953. This collection was first published in 1971.
Günter Grass at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German) Günter Grass at gdansk-life.com (in English) "Grass admits serving with Waffen-SS", The Guardian; Gaffney, Elizabeth (Summer 1991). "Gunter Grass, The Art of Fiction No. 124". The Paris Review. Summer 1991 (119). Günter Grass; Norman Mailer (2007). "The 20th Century on Trial ...
Group 47. Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a group of participants in German writers' meetings, invited by Hans Werner Richter between 1947 and 1967. [1] The meetings served the dual goals of literary criticism as well as the promotion of young, unknown authors. In a democratic vote titled "Preis der Gruppe 47" (Prize of Group 47), it elevated many who ...
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 ...
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.
Local Anaesthetic (novel) Local Anaesthetic. (novel) Local Anaesthetic ( German: Örtlich betäubt) is a 1969 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It tells the story of an idealistic high-school teacher who believes society, like a pupil, is learning from experience and reason.
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 .