German writer, sculptor and graphic artist
Grass in 1982
Günter Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German writer, sculptor and graphic artist. He had an international breakthrough as a novelist with his Danzig Trilogy (1959–1963). He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1965 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.[ 1]
Grass wrote the following books.[ 2]
Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (poems, 1956); Steidl, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-569-7
Gleisdreieck (poems, 1960)
Ausgefragt (poems, 1967)
Letzte Tänze (poems, 2003)
Dummer August (poems, 2007)
Die bösen Köche. Ein Drama (play, 1956) ISSN 0722-8511 translated as The Wicked Cooks in Four Plays (1967)
Hochwasser. Ein Stück in zwei Akten (play, 1957) The Flood
Onkel, Onkel. Ein Spiel in vier Akten (play, 1958) Mister, Mister
Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand (play, 1966) trans. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966)
Davor (play, 1970) trans. Max (1972) on a plot from Local Anaesthetic
Dog Years , cover from 1999
Danzig
Die Blechtrommel (novel, 1959) trans. The Tin Drum (1959) ISBN 978-0-679-72575-6 .
Katz und Maus (novella, 1961) trans. Cat and Mouse (1963) ISBN 978-0-15-615551-9
Hundejahre (novel, 1963) trans. Dog Years (1965) ISBN 978-0-7493-9450-9
Novels and short stories [ edit ]
Im Krebsgang (novel, 2002) trans. Crabwalk (2002) ISBN 978-0-15-602970-4
Die Artur-Knoff-Geschichten. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-292-5 (untranslated)
Figurenstehen (2022). trans. The Living Statue: A Legend (2024)
Über das Selbstverständliche. Reden – Aufsätze – Offene Briefe – Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1968) trans. Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969) with 3 additional pieces
Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke [de ] (political reportage, 1972) trans. From the Diary of a Snail (1973) ISBN 978-0-7493-9455-4
Der Bürger und seine Stimme. Reden Aufsätze Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1974)
Denkzettel. Politische Reden und Aufsätze 1965–1976 (political essays and speeches, 1978)
Widerstand lernen. Politische Gegenreden 1980–1983 (political speeches, 1984)
Zunge zeigen. Ein Tagebuch in Zeichnungen (political diary, 1988) trans. Show Your Tongue (1989)
Unkenrufe (novel, 1992) trans. The Call of the Toad (1992) ISBN 978-0-15-615340-9
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (memoir, 2006) trans. Peeling the Onion (2007) ISBN 978-0-15-603534-7 – first volume of memoir
Die Box (memoir, 2008) trans. The Box (2010) ISBN 978-0-09-953975-9 – second volume of memoir
Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland. Tagebuch 1990. (political diary, 2009) trans. From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990 (2012) ISBN 978-0-547-36460-5
Grimms Wörter (memoir, 2010) Third volume of memoir.
Vonne Endlichkait (collection of prose, poetry, and drawings, 2015) ISBN 978-3-95829-042-6
Collections in English translation
Four Plays (1967) including Ten Minutes to Buffalo
In the Egg and Other Poems (1977)
Two States One Nation? (1990)
Of All That Ends (poetry and prose) (6 December 2016) ISBN 978-0-544-78538-0
Prose
Poetry Plays Adaptations