"G\u00FCnter Wilhelm Gra\u00DF"@en . . . . . . "G\u00FCnter Grass"@en . "G\u00FCnter Wilhelm Grass (German: [\u02C8\u0261\u028Fnt\u0250 \u02C8\u0261\u0280as]; 16 October 1927 \u2013 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.Grass, who identified as Kashubian, was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda\u0144sk, Poland). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS, and was taken prisoner of war by U.S. forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946."@en . . "2013Z"^^ . . "2015-04-13Z"^^ . "1956Z"^^ . . . . . . . "1927-10-16Z"^^ . .