| Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In 1945, he came as a refugee to West Germany, but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood. He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text in European magic realism and the first part of his Danzig Trilogy. His works frequently have a left wing, social democrat political dimension, and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. I really admit him for two books: "The Call of the Toad" and "Peeling the Onion". I guess he is the closest to capture naturaly men and women during the 2. World War and after, during the years of estrangement in Poland / Germany. His art has unique overtones which describes modern society in whole new way. |
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