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.
German Nobel Prize winner Gunther Grass fears that the nuclear disaster in Japan and other environmental issues could lead to an eco-dictatorship, according to an interview published in the “Haumburger Abenbdblatt”.