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In what year did German novelist Günter Grass win the Nobel Prize in Literature, decades before a stunning wartime confession threatened his legacy?
Answer
1999
Günter Grass received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, cited for his work including 'The Tin Drum.' In 2006 he revealed he had hidden his Nazi Waffen-SS membership for 60 years.
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Günter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, but in 2006 revealed he'd hidden his Nazi SS membership for 60 years—sparking calls to revoke his award.
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- 1991
- 1995
- 2003
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- 20th-century
- germany
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