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About Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) 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). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS. He 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.

Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Günter Grass writes about Günter Grass (1927-2015), 20th century, History, Fiction, Germany, and Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author). Their best-known work is Die Blechtrommel.

On FindMyTBR we track 30 books by Günter Grass, 28 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Anni di cani, Años de perro (Trilogía de Danzig 3), and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.