Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: GÃ 1\/4 nter Wilhelm Grass ( born October 16 1927 in Danzig ( now Gdansk , Poland ) is a German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature .
Simplified: GÃ 1\/4 nter Wilhelm Grass ( born 16 October 1927 ) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author , poet , playwright , sculptor and artist . He was born in the Free City of Danzig ( now GdaÅ sk , Poland ) .