Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999, announced September 30, 1999. Günter Grass, “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history”. Günter Grass: born 1927, Danzig, Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).