1999 Nobel Prize in Literature

1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
Günter Grass
"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history."
Date
  • 30 September 1999 (1999-09-30) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1999
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial website

The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German writer Günter Grass (1927–2015) "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." He is the eighth German author to become a recipient of the prize after Heinrich Böll in 1972.

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