For 10 points, name this German author of Crabwalk who created Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum.
One of this author's works includes a talking flounder taken from the Brothers' Grimm, while another prophesizes that rats will inherit the Earth. His The Citizen and his Voice contains speeches he ghost-wrote for a famous politician, whose politics he analogizes as the slow movement of a snail in From the Diary of a Snail. In one of his works, each year of a hundred is described in a short chapter told by a different narrator, and in another, Bertolt Brecht refuses to support the East Berlin workers' reformist uprising. In addition to My Century and The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, a more famous story concerned the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, and he depicted Nazi cruelty is a trilogy that included Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. For 10 points, name this German author of Crabwalk who created Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum.
One of this author's works includes a talking flounder taken from the Brothers' Grimm, while another prophesizes that rats will inherit the Earth.
Gunter {Grass}