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Günter Grass

Biography

Günter Grass

Günter Grass (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel THE TIN DRUM in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.

Günter Grass

Books by Günter Grass

Crabwalk
by Günter Grass

The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some nine thousand people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events.