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Gnter Wilhelm Grass was a KashubianGerman novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Grass, who liked to call himself Kashubian, was born in the Free City of Danzig . As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the WaffenSS, 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. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.

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