Günter Grass

Günter Grass

Günter Grass (born 1927), the German author

Legal name, Full name

"Günter Wilhelm Grass"

Born

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1927, October 1927, October 16th 1927, Europe, the EU,  …

Poland, the world, eastern Europe, the Northern Hemisphere, Gda?sk, Free City of Danzig, Pomorskie, Wrzeszcz, Tricity, Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia, US postal Group 4, the UK European postal area, the Central European Time region, Gda?sk

Albums

Die Blechtrommel

Wrote

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The Tin Drum, Crabwalk, Cat and Mouse, Danzig Trilogy, Dog Years,  …

My Century

Wrote for Screen

The Tin Drum

Occupation

writer

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Grass

Won

Nobel Prize in Literature (1999), Georg Büchner Prize

Gender

male

Nationality

German, german

Residence

Gda?sk

Last Name, Rare Terms

"Grass"

First Name

"Günter"

Active

1956 onwards

Class

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person; atheist; writer; poet; Libra person;  …

novelist; author; award winner; person that was nominated for an award, honour or prize

Religion

atheist

Influenced

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Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Philip Roth, John Irving,  …

José Saramago

Born During

1920s

Attributes

atheist, male, german

Influence

Friedrich Nietzsche

Influences

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Voltaire, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, Miguel de Cervantes,  …

Rainer Maria Rilke, Denis Diderot, François Rabelais, John Dos Passos, Laurence Sterne, Friedrich Hölderlin, Ivan Goncharov

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Related Websites

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wbc/all; http://www.rosenthalusa.com/1288d920/GRASS_Guenter.htm; http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=2678; http://www.charlierose.com/guests/g%C3%BCnter-grass; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article659887.ece;  …

http://www.the-ledge.com/flash/ledge.php?book=117&lan=UK; http://articles.news.aol.com/entertainment/_a/grass-writes-about-shame-over-ss/20060817183209990014; http://www.signandsight.com/features/899.html; http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1843187,00.html; http://www.virtuelleallgemeinbibliothek.de/EXTRA1.HTM; http://www.gdansk-life.com/poland/gunter-grass; http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/grass.htm; http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/GrassGuenter; http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/bio-bibl.html

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/G%C3%BCnter_Grass

Middle-name

"Wilhelm"

Birthday

the 16th of October

Quotes

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"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place."; "Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."; "Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."; "If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness."; "Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.";  …

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."; "The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."; "Even bad books are books and therefore sacred."; "Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."

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