WRITER

Günter Grass

1927 - 2015

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Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS. He was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günter Grass has received more than 1,330,423 page views. His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Günter Grass is the 135th most popular writer (down from 133rd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Writer.

Günter Grass is most famous for his novel "The Tin Drum" which was published in 1959. It is considered to be one of the most important and influential novels of the 20th century.

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  • 111

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Günter Grass ranks 135 out of 7,302. Before him are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Plautus, Cato the Elder, Hafez, and Samuel Beckett. After him are Adam Mickiewicz, Yukio Mishima, Carlo Collodi, Boris Pasternak, Mary Shelley, and Petronius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Günter Grass ranks 5. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez, Pope Benedict XVI, Ferenc Puskás, and Gina Lollobrigida. After him are Bhumibol Adulyadej, Olof Palme, Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Among people deceased in 2015, Günter Grass ranks 3. Before him are Lee Kuan Yew, and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. After him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Demis Roussos, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif, Terry Pratchett, Tomas Tranströmer, and B.B. King.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günter Grass ranks 13 out of 1,694. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Manfred von Richthofen (1892). After him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Fritz Haber (1868), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), and Władysław Szpilman (1911).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Günter Grass ranks 1. After him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), and Alfred Döblin (1878).

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