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Grass, Günter Wilhelm
German writer. The grotesque humour and socialist feeling of his novels Die Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum (1959) and Der Butt/The Flounder (1977) are also characteristic of many of his poems. Deeply committed politically, Grass's works contain a mixture of scurrility, humour, tragedy, satire, and marvellously inventive imagery. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
Die Blechtrommel, one of the most successful post-war German novels, is narrated by a midget, Oskar, who willed himself to stop growing at the age of three, a device that enabled the Grass to hover between fantasy and realism and achieve a detachment to make the scenes and characters of German life before and during the Nazi regime stand out with extraordinary clarity and humour.
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