Too Far Afield

Günter Grass, born in Danzig, Germany in 1927, is one of Germany's most celebrated writers. A man of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and graphic artist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. He died in 2015. Krishna Winston is professor and chair of the German Studies Department in the Wesleyan University and the principal English-language translator for the works of the Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass. She also translated Peter Handke's Don Juan.

'Grass's novel is a perfect instrument for tracing echoes and parallels across German writing and history. No other German novelist could have pulled off such a feat.' The Economist