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Günter Grass
Full Name of the recipient | Günter Grass |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1999 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history |
Place of Birth | Danzig (now Gdansk), Free City of Danzig (now known as Poland POL) |
Date of Birth | 16 October 1927 |
Age at the time of Award | 71 years |
Place of Death | Lübeck, Germany DEU |
Date of Death | 13 April 2015 |