AKA Günter Wilhelm Grass

Born: 16-Oct-1927
Birthplace: Danzig, Germany
Died: 13-Apr-2015
Location of death: Luebeck, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: German novelist, The Tin Drum

Military service: German Army (Waffen-SS, WWII, POW)

Wife: Anna Margareta Schwartz (m. 1954, div. 1978, three sons, one daughter)
Son: Franz
Son: Raoul
Daughter: Laura
Son: Bruno
Wife: Utte Grunert (m. 1979)

    High School: Conradinum, Danzig
    University: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
    University: Universität der Künste Berlin
    President: Berlin Akademie der Künste (1983-86)

    Sonning Prize 1996
    Nobel Prize for Literature 1999
    Georg Büchner Prize 1965
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Berliner Akademie der Künste President (1983-86)
    International PEN
    Shrapnel Injury
    Taken Prisoner of War

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Hôtel Terminus (7-Oct-1988)

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