I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray – and allowed itself to be led astray.
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| Birth: | 16th October, 1927 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Novelist, Playwriter, Poet |
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Günter Wilhelm Grass is a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely regarded as Germany's most famous living writer. Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig. In 1945, he came to West Germany as a homeless refugee, though in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood.
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