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Also Known As	Günter Wilhelm Grass
Born	October 16, 1927 • Gdańsk • Poland
Died	April 13, 2015 (aged 87) • Lübeck • Germany
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1999)
Notable Works	“Cat and Mouse” • “Crabwalk” • “Dog Years” • “Ein weites Feld” • “From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990” • “Headbirths, or, the Germans Are Dying Out” • “My Century” • “Peeling the Onion” • “The Call of the Toad” • “The Flounder” • “The Rat” • “The Tin Drum”

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