At 87 years of age died German writer and Nobel laureate G?nter Grass
April 13 at the age of 87 years of age died German writer and Nobel Prize for Literature G?nter Grass. According to a spokesman for G ü nter-Grass-Haus – Forum for Literature and Art opened writer – artist died due to infectioustion, reports Deutsche Welle. Representative publisher Steidl Matthias Vener reported that the writer died in hospital of L?beck. L?beck Mayor Bernd Sachs has already expressed condolences called ’ connection with the death of Grass. &Laquo; This is a terrible loss for L?beck, as well as German and World Literature & raquo ;, – Sachs said. G?nter Grass wrote dramas, poemsand above all fiction. For his novel « Tin Drum » (1959) forty years after its publication the Nobel Prize for Literature. Grass also earned great respect among the Germans for help in the revival of German culture and promote democratic discourse after the Second World War. However, in 2006 by authorobiohrafichnyy work « Bulb city ’ memory » fighter against the Nazi past was harshly criticized: Grass admitted that in his youth he was a member of the SS.Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/