The Tin Drum
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The Tin Drum 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
Cover of the first German edition
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.
The Tin Drum
…The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced ) 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…
Grass in 1982
Grass's childhood home in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) in 2010
Danzig Krantor waterfront (postcard, c. 1900)
Grass in 1986