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Gunter Grass, born in Gdansk, Poland is noted throughout the world as one of the greatest German authors and has to his credit a number of memorable novels. Gunter Grass's father had a grocery store and he studied at Danzig Volksschule and Gymnasium. Sometime in the 1930s Gunter Grass became a member of the Hitler Youth, and at the young age of 16 he was enlisted into the army. Gunter Grass enacted many roles and he was not only a poet, playwright and novelist but also a sculptor and printmaker. He had written excellent poetry when he was in Düsseldorf and Berlin out of which he had read out some in front of an influential group of writers known as Group 47.
Achievements of Gunter Grass
During his days of education in Paris in 1956, he began penning down his very first successful novel, The Tin Drum. This novel depicts a true and realistic picture of the German history and specially of the Nazis. Since the late 1950s the other works of Gunter Grass included mainly plays, which were good and appreciated. Gunter Grass considered The Tin Drum to be the initial part of the 'Danzig trilogy', which carried on in the Cat and Mouse, a novella portraying the accounts of a lower-middle-class youth in Danzig between 1939 and 1944. Dog Years is another important work of Gunter Grass, which focused on the postwar conditions and the acts of the Nazis. This trilogy of Gunter Grass gave him a lot of fame and recognition and after this he became actively involved in politics.It has been a great honor and privilege of Gunter Grass to be awarded with the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
