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'''Günter Grass''' (Danzig 1927) [[German]] writer, poet, sculptor and printmaker. In 1999 he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]]. The same year he received the Prize "Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras". His works includes 25 books.  His first novel was ''The Tin Drum'' (Die Blechtrommel), 1959. (recently works: Mein Jahrhundert , 1999 and Im Krebsgang, 2002.)

'''Günter Grass''' (Danzig 1927) [[German]] writer, poet, sculptor and printmaker. In 1999 he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]]. The same year he received the Prize "Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras". His works includes 25 books.  His first novel was ''The Tin Drum'' (Die Blechtrommel), 1959. (recently works: Mein Jahrhundert , 1999 and Im Krebsgang, 2002.) In his "German tragedy" The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, and published political speeches and essays, he advocated a Germany free from fanaticism and totalitarian ideologies... Vehement debate and criticism were aroused by his mammoth novel Ein weites Feld which is set in the DDR in the years of the collapse of communism and the fall of the Berlin wall. <ref> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/grass-bio.html Günter Grass

Among Grass' several awards are Gruppe 47 Prize (1958), Critics' Prize (1960, Germany), Foreign Book Prize (1962, France), Bühner Prize (1965), Fontane Prize (1968), Heuss Prize (1969), Mondello Prize (1977, Palermo), Carl von Ossiersky Medal (1977), Viareggio-Versilia Prize (1978), Majakowski Medal (1977), Feltrinelli Prize (1982), Leonhard Frank Ring (1988).

Among Grass' several awards are Gruppe 47 Prize (1958), Critics' Prize (1960, Germany), Foreign Book Prize (1962, France), Bühner Prize (1965), Fontane Prize (1968), Heuss Prize (1969), Mondello Prize (1977, Palermo), Carl von Ossiersky Medal (1977), Viareggio-Versilia Prize (1978), Majakowski Medal (1977), Feltrinelli Prize (1982), Leonhard Frank Ring (1988).

"You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at the very start that it's impossible to write a novel nowadays, but then, behind your own back so to speak, give birth to a whopper, a novel to end all novels." (from The Tin Drum)  

"You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at the very start that it's impossible to write a novel nowadays, but then, behind your own back so to speak, give birth to a whopper, a novel to end all novels." (from The Tin Drum)  

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== External links ==

== External links ==

*[http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/19/specials/grass.html?_r=1&oref=slogin '''Günter Grass'''] With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times.   

*[http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/19/specials/grass.html?_r=1&oref=slogin '''Günter Grass'''] With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times.