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Telegraph:
Günter Grass dead at 87; won 1999 Nobel Prize in literature mainly for “The Tin Drum”, published in '59
Guardian:
Günter Grass obituary
Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best
Günter Grass: four key works
Günter Grass dead at 87; won 1999 Nobel Prize in literature mainly for “The Tin Drum”, published in '59
more at linksGünter Grass, who has died aged 87, won the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature mainly for his first novel, Die Blechtrommel (“The Tin Drum”, his satire on Germany under the Nazis which became an immediate bestseller on its publication in 1959.
There was, therefore, disbelief when in 2006, at the age of 78, Grass confessed in an interview prior to the publication of his autobiography, Peeling the Onion, that in the final months of the Second World War, when he was 17, he had been drafted into the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the Nazi corps that played a leading role in the Holocaust.
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Guardian:
Günter Grass obituary
Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best
Günter Grass: four key works