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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 1,223,299 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Günter Grass is the 133rd most popular writer (up from 136th 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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  • 108

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.58

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  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Günter Grass ranks 133 out of 5,755. Before him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Haruki Murakami, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, August Strindberg, and Carlo Collodi. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Brontë, Catullus, Tove Jansson, and William Blake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Günter Grass ranks 7. Before him are Pope Benedict XVI, Gabriel García Márquez, Ferenc Puskás, Olof Palme, Roger Moore, and Gina Lollobrigida. After him are Bhumibol Adulyadej, Sidney Poitier, Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, and Lawrence Kohlberg. Among people deceased in 2015, Günter Grass ranks 4. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Lee Kuan Yew. After him are Omar Sharif, Demis Roussos, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Christopher Lee, Terry Pratchett, Tomas Tranströmer, Helmut Schmidt, and B.B. King.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günter Grass ranks 13 out of 1,454. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Fritz Haber (1868). After him are Wernher von Braun (1912), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Janusz Korczak (1878), and Stanisław Lem (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Günter Grass ranks 1. After him are Janusz Korczak (1878), Stanisław Lem (1921), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Osip Mandelstam (1891).

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