Günter Grass, who has died aged 87, was Germany’s best-known postwar novelist, a man of titanic energy and zest who, besides his fiction-writing, enjoyed the cut and thrust of political debate and ...

Nobel laureate Günter Grass, a pivotal post-war German writer, explored historical truths and human flaws in works like "The ...

He was a writer who forced post-war Germany to rethink itself and turned heads with strong political statements. In the wake of Günter Grass' death, artists, intellectuals and politicians pay tribute ...

From a novel that set the template for magical realism to a wartime memoir which scandalised a nation Grass’s first novel remains his most famous, and generally acknowledged as one of the key works of ...

Günter Grass identifies Israel as a threat to world peace in his poem, 'What Must Be Said' [GALLO/GETTY] In this poem, Günter Grass breaks a long standing German taboo and publicly criticises Israel ...

How to define Günter Grass? All things to all men; novelist, visual artist, witness, 1999 Nobel Literature Laureate, commentator, polemicist, world traveller, poet, a maverick, a tireless chronicler ...

One day after the tempest created in Germany by the publication of a poem critical of Israel, Günter Grass on Thursday defended himself against his critics. The Nobel Prize in literature recipient ...

On Wednesday, the 84-year-old writer and Nobel literature prizewinner Günter Grass published a poem in which he sharply criticized Israel for its hostile stance towards Iran. His poem, entitled “What ...

"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open." Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) The Gymnasium, and art college after the war. Drafted at 16, he was held as a POW; he trained as a sculptor and ...

They don’t come along very often, but right now there are three outstanding solo productions at European theaters. By A.J. Goldmann A Group of 7 leaders meeting in June will gather at Schloss Elmau, ...

With Painting Between the Lines, the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts continues its investigation into the relationship between literature and art.