News German author Guenter Grass dies.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32285705

Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize winner and author of The Tin Drum, has died aged 87.
His publisher said he passed away at a clinic in Luebeck on Monday morning.
Born in what was then Danzig, Grass served in the German military in World War Two and published his breakthrough anti-Nazi novel, The Tin Drum, in 1959.
Later in life he became a vocal opponent of German reunification in 1990, and argued afterwards that it had been carried out too hastily.

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, rest in peace might be a bit inappropriate for such a restless soul.

He should not be reduced to the Tin Drum... His late "Crabwalk" was IMHO the better "Great German Novel".