Gunter Grass, Nobel-winning author of 'The Tin Drum', dies
April 14, 2015 01:51
Novelist Gnter Grass, the Nobel laureate who is perhaps best known for his novel The Tin Drum and who shocked his country when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen SS in the last months of World War II, has died. Grass was 87.
The news was announced by his publisher, Steidl Verlag, in a statement on its website. The publisher said Grass died at a clinic in the town of Lbeck, Germany. It did not provide a cause of death.
Grass emerged as one of Germany's leading public intellectuals after World War II -- a man whom his biographer Michael Juergs described in a 2006 interview with NPR as a "moral icon." The Tin Drum, an anti-Nazi novel, propelled Grass to literary stardom.
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