For 10 points name this author of Crabwalk, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years, who wrote of Oskar Matzerath receiving the title instrument and refusing to age in his novel The Tin Drum.
One of his novels sees a high school teacher imagine projections on the TV in the dentist office, and he wrote a novel in which Simon Dach assembles a 1647 convention of poets in The Meeting at Teltge. In another of his novels, the title figure tells a version of events in which gnawing on microchips triggers a nuclear holocaust. In addition to Local Anesthesia and The Rat, he wrote about Paul Pokriefke, who was born during the sinking of the cruise ship the Wilhelm Gustolf. For 10 points name this author of Crabwalk, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years, who wrote of Oskar Matzerath receiving the title instrument and refusing to age in his novel The Tin Drum.
One of his novels sees a high school teacher imagine projections on the TV in the dentist office, and he wrote a novel in which Simon Dach assembles a 1647 convention of poets in The Meeting at Teltge.
Gunter {Grass}