Grass, Günter

Country/Region:: Germany, Poland

Born:: October 16, 1927
Dead:: April 13, 2015
Genres:: Drama, Miscellaneous prose, Poetry

Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2009)

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Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German author born in Danzig (present-day Gdansk in Poland) to German-Polish parents. His father was a Protestant grocer and his mother a Roman Catholic of Kashubian (a Slavic minority in Poland) origin. The family lived in a small apartment in the Langfuhr district of the city.

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The article written by: Tony Samuelsson. Published: February 10, 2015
Last update: April 13, 2015 by Alex editorial staff

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