Günter Grass
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Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Grass in 1982
Grass's childhood home in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) in 2010
Danzig Krantor waterfront (postcard, c. 1900)
Grass in 1986
Cat and Mouse (novella)
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Cat and Mouse is a 1961 novella by German writer Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum. It is about Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a fath
Günter Grass
…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 are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic…
Front cover of the first original German edition