Günter Grass
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Günter Grass
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999
Born: 16 October 1927, Danzig (now Gdansk), Free City of Danzig (now Poland)
Died: 13 April 2015, Lübeck, Germany
Residence at the time of the award: Federal Republic of Germany
Prize motivation: "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history."
Language: German
Prize share: 1/1
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