Novelist Gunter Grass

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Gunter Grass

Living place: Germany

Birthday: 16-10-1927 (97 years old)

Global rank: #44932

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Who is Novelist Gunter Grass?
An important 20th-century German author, he is known for his 1959 novel, The Tin Drum, which is a prime example of the genre of European magical realism. He was honored with the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He is known for his Danzig Trilogy, which includes The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He enlisted in the Waffen-SS during World War II, and he later spent time as a political refugee. Upon returning to Germany, he studied graphic design and sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Family life info

He and his sister grew up in a Protestant family in the city of Danzig. He married his second wife in 1979.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Gunter Grass?
He became a Nobel laureate in 1999, six years before British writer Harold Pinter was honored with the same.

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When was Novelist Gunter Grass born?
Gunter Grass birthday 16-10-1927 (at the age of 97).
Where is Novelist Gunter Grass's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gunter Grass was born in Germany. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Gunter Grass's global rank is 44932 and whose rank is 310 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1927 and 16-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Gunter Grass

  • The German economy collapses.
  • Socialists riot in Vienna; a general strike follows acquittal of Nazis for political murder.
  • Trotsky is expelled from the Russian Communist Party.
  • Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.

Birthday Gunter Grass (16-10) in history

  • Day 16-10 year 1793: French Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded for treason.
  • Day 16-10 year 1859: Abolitionist John Brown and his men captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
  • Day 16-10 year 1916: Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City.
  • Day 16-10 year 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis began.
  • Day 16-10 year 1964: China detonated its first atomic bomb.
  • Day 16-10 year 1978: John Paul II was elected pope.
  • Day 16-10 year 1995: Hundreds of thousands of black men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
  • Day 16-10 year 2001: Twelve Senate offices were closed when a letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain anthrax.
  • Day 16-10 year 2002: The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program.
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