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Nobel prize winner Gunter Grass dies at 87
Berlin, Apr 13 (IBNS): In a big loss for the literary world, Nobel Prize-winning German novelist Gunter Grass breathed his last on Monday in a Luebeck hospital.
He was 87.
Matthias Wegner, spokesperson for the Steidl publishing house, confirmed that Grass died Monday morning in a Luebeck hospital.
Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig, now Gdańsk, Poland.
In May 1945, after brief service as a soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces and released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, he began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.
Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, which includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years.
His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
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