Tag: Berlin Wall 1989

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

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

  

  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.

• Friday, October 12th 2012 - 17:03 UTC

  Strong support from the Nobel Prize for a battered European Union

  

  The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades in an award seen as a morale boost as the bloc struggles to resolve its economic crisis.