ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ( listen); 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).

Detailed explanation-2: -“Dog Years” is Grass’s most modernist work, a text with no determinable centre, an arena for voices and a meeting place for fevered dreams that turn out to coincide with life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Magic Realism Best known for his bizarre and immense novel The Tin Drum, Günter Grass has become a key figure in the European tradition of magic realism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alfred Nobel was an inventor, entrepreneur, scientist and businessman who also wrote poetry and drama. His varied interests are reflected in the prize he established and which he lay the foundation for in 1895 when he wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the prize.