Birth: 1927-10-16
, Cidade Livre de Danzig
Death: 2015-04-13
, Lübeck
Günter Grass was a German writer, born in 1927 and died in 2015, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. He is one of the most influential and recognized German-language authors of the post-war period, known for his works that address German history, guilt, and collective memory.