Gunther Grass, Nobel laureate in literature, won world fame half a century ago with the novel Tin Drum, brilliantly filmed in 1979 by F. Schlendorf (the film received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscar as the best foreign film). Grass's bestselling books "Cat and Mouse," "Dog Years," "Crab Trajectory," "From the Snail Diary" have been translated into dozens of languages.