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Which German author wrote The Tin Drum, the first novel of his Danzig Trilogy, featuring a protagonist named Oskar Matzerath who decides to stop growing at age three?

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Günter Grass

The Tin Drum is a landmark of post-WWII European literature that uses magical realism to explore the rise of Nazism. Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 for his career-long examination of German history.

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