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Peeling the Onion (German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is a 2006 autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass. [1] [2] [3] It begins with the end of his childhood in Danzig (Gdansk) when the Second World War breaks out, and ends with the author finishing his first great literary success, The Tin Drum.
Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ...
The Box (German: Die Box) is a 2008 fictionalised autobiography by the German writer Günter Grass. It has the subtitle "Tales from the Darkroom" ("Dunkelkammergeschichten"). In the narrative, the 80-year-old Grass' eight children, at their father's request, record conversations where they say what they think of him.
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.
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy.It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
Günter Grass; Günter Grass bibliography; List of Christian Nobel laureates; List of Germans; Local Anaesthetic (novel) My Century; Peeling the Onion; The Box (Grass book) The Call of the Toad; The Call of the Toad (film) The Flounder; The Meeting at Telgte; The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising; The Rat (novel) The Tin Drum (film) What Must Be ...
The Danzig Trilogy (German: Danziger Trilogie) is series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass. The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). The three books in the trilogy are: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959; Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), published ...
Following Grass' confession in his 2006 autobiographical book Peeling the Onion that he joined the nazi SS in his youth, a member of the German parliament called for Grass to return the award. The Nobel Foundation immediately rejected the idea of revoking the prize, saying "Prize decisions are irreversible".