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.
Bibliography Grass wrote the following books.
Poetry Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (poems, 1956); Steidl, 2007, Gleisdreieck (poems, 1960) Ausgefragt (poems, 1967) Letzte Tänze (poems, 2003) Dummer August (poems, 2007)
Plays 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
Novel Series
Danzig Die Blechtrommel (novel, 1959) trans. The Tin Drum (1959) . Katz und Maus (novella, 1961) trans. Cat and Mouse (1963) Hundejahre (novel, 1963) trans. Dog Years (1965)
Novels and short stories Örtlich betäubt (novel, 1969) trans. Local Anaesthetic (1970) Der Butt (novel, 1977) trans. The Flounder (1978) Das Treffen in Telgte (novel, 1979) trans. The Meeting at Telgte (1981) Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus (novel, 1980) trans. Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out (1982) Die Rättin (novel, 1986) trans. The Rat (1987) Unkenrufe (novel, 1992) trans. The Call of the Toad (1992) (novel, 1995) trans. Too Far Afield (2000) Mein Jahrhundert (short story collection, 1999) trans. My Century (1999) Im Krebsgang (novel, 2002) trans. Crabwalk (2002) Die Artur-Knoff-Geschichten. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2019, (untranslated) Figurenstehen (2022). trans. The Living Statue: A Legend (2024)
Non-Fiction Über das Selbstverständliche. Reden – Aufsätze – Offene Briefe – Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1968) trans. Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969) with 3 additional pieces (political reportage, 1972) trans. From the Diary of a Snail (1973) 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) Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (memoir, 2006) trans. Peeling the Onion (2007) – first volume of memoir Die Box (memoir, 2008) trans. The Box (2010) – second volume of memoir Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland. Tagebuch 1990. (political diary, 2009) trans. From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990 (2012) Grimms Wörter (memoir, 2010) Third volume of memoir. Vonne Endlichkait (collection of prose, poetry, and drawings, 2015)
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)
References
External links Review of Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out The Boston Phoenix