Truth-teller, controversialist, affectionate friend – above all, ingenious and inspirational novelist … Orhan Pamuk, John Irving and other writers salute Günter Grass, who died this week Don’t mourn ...

He was a writer who forced post-war Germany to rethink itself and turned heads with strong political statements. In the wake of Günter Grass' death, artists, intellectuals and politicians pay tribute ...

Günter Grass, who has died aged 87, was Germany’s best-known postwar novelist, a man of titanic energy and zest who, besides his fiction-writing, enjoyed the cut and thrust of political debate and ...

German author Günter Grass has died at the age of 87 in Lübeck, Germany following an infection. He is one of the most important German writers of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for ...

'In time, perhaps, your country will think about its colonial crimes. No country has the right to point only at the Germans. Everybody has to empty their own latrine.' Günter Grass talks to Maya Jaggi ...

On Wednesday, the 84-year-old writer and Nobel literature prizewinner Günter Grass published a poem in which he sharply criticized Israel for its hostile stance towards Iran. His poem, entitled “What ...

The German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass has compared the Israeli interior minister to the Stasi, the latest move in an escalating dispute following Grass's publication of a poem criticising ...

Guenter Grass: "I have always considered myself a writer and a citizen" Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize winner and author of The Tin Drum, has died aged 87. His publisher said he passed ...

From a novel that set the template for magical realism to a wartime memoir which scandalised a nation Grass’s first novel remains his most famous, and generally acknowledged as one of the key works of ...

Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning author of acclaimed memoirs Peeling the Onion and The Box, has revealed that his new book will be his last venture into autobiography. Grass, 82, has just ...

"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open." Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) The Gymnasium, and art college after the war. Drafted at 16, he was held as a POW; he trained as a sculptor and ...