The New York Times

Günter Grass

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, ...
Jewish Journal

Gunter Grass told to stay away from Polish synagogue

Gunter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning poet banned from entering Israel, is being asked not to visit the Gdansk synagogue. Grass, 85, will arrive on Friday in the Polish city of his birth to open an ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Günter Grass’s Nazi Past

Günter Grass rose to international prominence in 1959 with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum, an unsparing, satirical glimpse of Germany in the first half of the last century. For years Grass ...
The Forward

Israeli Writers Will Call on PEN To Rebuke Günter Grass

The Hebrew Writers Association in Israel on Monday denounced a controversial poem by Nobel Literature laureate Günter Grass in which he criticizes Israel for threatening to attack Iran. The writers ...
The Nation

The Strange Silence of Günter Grass

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WESA

Günter Grass, Who Confronted Germany's Past As Well As His Own, Dies At 87

Günter Grass wrote more than 30 plays, novels, books of poems, essays and memoirs. He was also a visual artist and sculptor. He won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of undisclosed causes in ...
Jewish Journal

Netanayahu blasts Gunter Grass poem

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted a German poet who wrote that Israel is a threat to world peace. In a statement, Netanyahu condemned German Nobel laureate Gunter Grass for his ...
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Gunter Grass

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The New York Times

Günter Grass

Günter Grass's Silence Irmgard A Hunt letter, prompted by Aug 20 Daniel Kehlmann Op-Ed about Gunter Grass's admission that he was in Waffen SS as young man, says there are several reasons, including ...
The Atlantic

Günter Grass

THOUGH not yet forty — he was born in Danzig in 1927 — Günter Grass today occupies a place in German letters normally accorded only to successful authors of a riper age. Hardly a week passed last year ...
The Atlantic

The Politics of Günter Grass

Günter Grass is best known to Americans as the most serious comic genius of the postwar period, a Rabelaisian surrealist who has incarnated the Hitler years and their frantic aftermath in profound ...