Gunter Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
From Germany to Germany contains delightful insights into the process of crafting a novel...the most compelling and enduring evaluation of the complexities of reunification is likely to have come from the pen of Gunter Grass the novelist -- Harry de Quetteville Daily Telegraph Though Grass spent much of the year engaged in political argument - with others and with himself - there is much else in the book. It is first the record of a man possessed of extraordinary energy, both physical and mental...One cannot but admire his zest for life -- Allan Massie Scotsman From Germany to Germany is as earthy and real as The Tin Drum -- Carole Angier Literary Review This diary does capture a great moment in time -- Alastair Mabbott Herald