Nobel laureate Günther Grass
at Frankfurt bookfair
Günther
Grass (1927 - )
Günther Grass is a recent Nobel laureate - in
1999 he received the coveted award for "frolicsome black
fables" which "portrays the forgotten face of history."
In 1959, his novel 'The Tin Drum' ('Die Blechtrommel'),
a highly allegorical account of Nazi Germany, earnt him an
international reputation and is part of the Danzig trilogy.
Grass has always been politically active, siding with Germany's
social democrats and Willy Brandt and believing in
the responsibility of intellectuals.
