Günter Grass: Tin Drum author and German literature Nobel prize winner dies — ibtimes.co.uk

German literature Nobel prize winner Günter Grass has died, according to local reports. Grass died in the northern German city of Lubeck, according to his publishing house Steidl. The renowned novelist, aged 87, was best known for his first novel The Tin Drum. An active supporter for the Social democratic party of Germany, he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1999. The Swedish Academy praised him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".

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