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Tag: Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Tin Drum"

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:19 UTC

    Germany's greatest post WWII writer and Nobel Prize winner dies at 87

    For many he was the voice of a German generation that came of age in World War II and bore the burden of their parents' guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis.

    German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer's duty was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate.