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

Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:19 UTC

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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. Read full article

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