The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999
Awarded on: 1999-09-30
"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"
Günter Grass
Born: 1927-10-16 in Danzig, Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland)
Gender: male
Field: German author, visual artist and sculptor (1927–2015)
Biography
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.