One novel by this author 
One novel by this author contains characters like Herbert Truczinski, who falls in love with Niobe, a wooden figurehead of a ship. In another novel, this author wrote of a character who creates realistic scarecrows, Eddi Amsel, who is friends with Walter Matern. This author of Dog Years wrote a novel in which Alfred dies by swallowing a Nazi pin, and whose protagonist decides to stop growing and can shatter glass with his voice. For 10 points, name this German author who created Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum, part of his Danzig Trilogy.
One novel by this author contains characters like Herbert Truczinski, who falls in love with Niobe, a wooden figurehead of a ship.
Gunter Grass