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Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927–2015)

DescriptionGerman novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927–2015)
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Born1927-10-16
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BirthplaceGdańsk Free City of Danzig
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Died2015-04-13
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Place of deathLübeck Lübeck
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AreaGermany
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CountryDE
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CitizenshipFree City of Danzig Germany
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Occupationphotographer librettist altar server poet illustrator essayist screenwriter autobiographer printmaker sculptor painter playwright novelist graphic artist lyricist writer artist
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Member ofAcademy of Arts, Berlin American Academy of Arts and Sciences PEN Germany Royal Society of Literature Group 47
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AwardsSamuel Bogumil Linde Prize honorary doctorate Hermann Kesten Prize Princess of Asturias Literary Prize Fontane-Preis Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Pipe Smoker of the Year Eckart Witzigmann Prize honorary doctor of the University of Lübeck honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Thomas Mann Prize Carl von Ossietzky Medal Georg Büchner Prize Nobel Prize in Literature Hans Fallada Prize honorary doctor of Harvard University honorary citizen of Gdańsk Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin Grinzane Cavour Prize Hans Christian Andersen Award Honorary doctor of the University of Gdańsk Ernst-Toller-Preis Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts Theodor Heuss Award Q105870591 Fritz Bauer Prize Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg) Sonning Prize German Critics' Prize for Literature Stolem Medal
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Also known as

G. Grass Grass Gunter Grass Günther Grass Гинтер Грас

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