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Günter Grass

1927 - 2015

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Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS. He was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Günter Grass is the 133rd most popular writer (up from 135th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Poland (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Writer.

Günter Grass is most famous for his novel "The Tin Drum" which was published in 1959. It is considered to be one of the most important and influential novels of the 20th century.

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Among writers, Günter Grass ranks 133 out of 7,302. Before him are Ammianus Marcellinus, Apuleius, Sully Prudhomme, Jean de La Fontaine, Ezra Pound, and François Villon. After him are Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Swift, and Paul Verlaine.

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Among people born in 1927, Günter Grass ranks 5. Before him are Pope Benedict XVI, Gabriel García Márquez, Ferenc Puskás, and Bhumibol Adulyadej. After him are Olof Palme, Gina Lollobrigida, K. Alex Müller, F. Sherwood Rowland, Peter Falk, Roger Moore, and Samuel P. Huntington. Among people deceased in 2015, Günter Grass ranks 6. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Lee Kuan Yew, B.B. King, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Charles H. Townes. After him are Lemmy, Christopher Lee, Tomas Tranströmer, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Demis Roussos.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günter Grass ranks 14 out of 1,694. Before him are Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), and David Ben-Gurion (1886). After him are Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Fritz Haber (1868), and Adam Mickiewicz (1798).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Günter Grass ranks 1. After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).

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