Günter Grass (1927-2015)

Awarded the Prize “for whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history.”

German poet, novelist playwright. Grass was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Pol) on October 16, 1927. In 1948 he enrolled as a student of painting sculpture in the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. During 1953 to 1955 he studied in West Berlin at State Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. He began to write when he was a student. Apart from novels he writes many poems plays. Grass died on 13 April 2015 in Lübeck, Germany.
Major Works:
The Tin Drum (1959); Cat Mouse (1963); Dog Years (1963); Poems of Günter Grass (1969); Show Your Tongue (1988); My Century (1999)