Günter Grass - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1999
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Günter Grass

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1999
whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history
Citizenship
Free City of Danzig Free City of Danzig Germany Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
10/16/1927
place of birth
Gdańsk, Free City of Danzig
date of death
4/13/2015
place of death
Lübeck
Lived
87 years

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educated at
  • Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
    • academic major: graphics
    • end time: 1952
    • start time: 1948
  • Berlin University of the Arts
    • start time: 1953
    • end time: 1956
  • Pestalozzischule
member of
  • Academy of Arts, Berlin
    • end time: http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/a75f5698cd71e1f02bc774aafb4562f6
  • PEN Germany
    • start time: 1968
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1970
  • Group 47
    • start time: 1957
  • Royal Society of Literature
notable work
  • Dog Years
  • The Tin Drum
  • The Rat
  • Cat and Mouse
  • Crabwalk
  • What Must Be Said
  • The Call of the Toad
  • Last dances
occupation
  • illustrator
  • playwright
  • lyricist
  • painter
  • sculptor
  • graphic artist
  • novelist
  • librettist
  • printmaker
  • essayist
  • altar server
  • autobiographer
  • poet
  • screenwriter
  • photographer
  • writer
  • artist
field of work
  • fiction
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