Award-winning writer Günter Grass has died. He was 87 years old.
Grass (pictured, via) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. Throughout his writing career, Grass produced more than 30 plays, novels, poetry anthologies, essay collections, and autobiographies. The Guardian reports that he became especially well-known for his debut novel, The Tin Drum.
Here’s more from NPR.org: “After his initial success with The Tin Drum, Grass went on to write dozens of plays, memoirs, poems and novels — including fable-like tales called The Flounder, The Rat and The Call of the Toad — a comic romance between a German widower and Polish widow in the city of Gdańsk. Grass became known as the conscience of Germany, a liberal who engaged in politics and spoke his mind.” (via The New York Times)