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== Books ==

== Books ==

His works includes 25 books.  His first novel was ''The Tin Drum'' (Die Blechtrommel), 1959. Other works followed, including Cat and Mouse, Dog Days, From the Diary of a Snail, The Flounder and The Rat; recently works are: 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] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 </ref>

His works includes 25 books.  His first novel was ''The Tin Drum'' (Die Blechtrommel), 1959. Other works followed, including Cat and Mouse, Dog Days, From the Diary of a Snail, The Flounder and The Rat <ref> [http://www.aol.in/news/story/2007101502139012000002/index.html Gunter Grass: A literary giant turns 80] </ref>; recently works are: 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] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 </ref>

== Awards ==

== Awards ==