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 Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927 ) is Nobel Prize -winning German author. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk , Poland ) and now living in Germany. Unsourced Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred. Even if surrounded... 
 
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Günter Grass | | Birth Date: |
October 16, 1927 | | Place of Birth: |
Danzig, Germany | | Nationality: |
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novelist, playwright, poet, author |
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 Biography of Günter Grass
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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... summary from source:
Biography of Günter Grass
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 Gunter Grass is more than a writer; he is a phenomenon. Recognized in Germany by friend and foe alike as a formidable artistic and political force, abroad he is viewed almost as a personification of Germany and of postwar German literature. Yet, Grass... summary from source:
 Biography of Guenter (Wilhelm) Grass
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Günter Grass is more than a writer; he is a phenomenon. Recognized in Germany by friend and foe alike as a formidable artistic and political force, abroad he is viewed almost as a personification of Germany and of postwar German literature. Yet,...
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 Günter Grass Information
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Günter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since 1945, he has lived in (the now former) West Germany, but in his fiction he frequently...
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 The Sunday Telegraph London Grasses
07/18/2004: 911 words, approx. 3 pages Mention grasses, and many gardeners will imagine something very modern that wouldn't necessarily suit their own home turf. But they are more flexible than you might think. I planted two ornamental grass-based borders last autumn, each about 2.5m wide by 6m long and... summary from source:
New York Grass Roots
09/04/2006: 1,411 words, approx. 5 pages Günter Grass's revelation of his membership in the Waffen SS shows him as a flawed man. But the truths of his novels are as pure as ever. IN CRABWALK, HIS LAST FICTION before he spilled his Waffen-SS beans, Günter Grass explained that "history,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Keith Miles
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Günter Grass is the most consistently interesting and disturbing writer at work in Europe today. With his prodigious talents, unmistakable voice, alarming energy, wayward genius and sheer physical presence, he has made himself a tremendous force in modern European literature. He has faults, naturally: as befits a great writer, he sometimes has great faults. But—as he himself might say—this much is certain: for the German novel he has once more gained an international audience. (p. 11) T... summary from source:
Critical Essay by J. P. Stern
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With the deaths of Thomas Mann in 1955 and of Bertolt Brecht and Gottfried Benn in 1956, a major era in the history of German literature comes to an end. These three are not only the greatest writers of their age, they are also its witnesses. Each of them worked in a different genre…. Yet the questions they ask have a family likeness; and the answers they offer remind us forcibly that theirs was an age of terror. Any author whose literary gifts and moral disposition lead him towards this contemporary... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Michael Hamburger
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[This essay from which this excerpt is taken was originally published in Dimension, Summer 1970.] When I ask myself what makes Günter Grass so outstanding a phenomenon as a poet, the first answer that occurs to me is: the circumstance that he is so many other things as well, an outstanding novelist, playwright, draughtsman, politician and cook. In an age of specialists such diversity of interest and accomplishment could well be suspect, as indeed it is to some of Günter Grass's critics....
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