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Günter Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
* He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) in 1927.
* As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945.
* He was released in April 1946.
* Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s.
* In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.
* His most famous work is the novel The Tin Drum, which was published in 1959.
* He was a vocal critic of the Nazi regime and the Cold War.
* He died in 2015 at the age of 87.