Died Günter Grass, Nobel Prize for Literature and author of "The Tin Drum"

The Nobel Prize for Literature Günter Grass, leading figure in contemporary German literature and author of the famous novel "The Tin Drum", has died at age 87.  "The Nobel laureate Günter Grass died this morning at age 87 in a clinic in Lübeck", in northern Germany, announced its publisher, Steidl, on Monday April 13.

 Günter Grass (Danzig, 1927) writer after receiving a strong background as a sculptor and draftsman was made.  In 1999 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.  His work includes poems, dramas and especially novels.

 The Tin Drum (Alfaguara, 2009), one of the masterpieces of contemporary European literature, composed with Dog Years and Cat and Mouse (Alfaguara, 1999) the famous "Danzig Trilogy".  His reputation has been built on these and other masterpieces such as turbot (Alfaguara, 1999), is a long story short (Alfaguara, 1997) or Crabwalk (Alfaguara, 2003).

Witness his time constantly fighting silencing of the past, including its production and autobiographical essay stand My Century (Alfaguara, 1999), the diary of a snail (Alfaguara, 2001), Five decades (Alfaguara, 2003), its controversial Peeling the Onion (Alfaguara, 2007), Box desires (Alfaguara, 2009) and From Germany to Germany.  Journal, 1990 (Alfaguara, 2011).

Pricipe Asturias Award in 1999

Awarded in 1999 "to whom a literary creation and testing, and civic and human trajectory become outstanding figure of the literature".  The jury agreed to grant the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1999 to Günter Grass.  "His writing, of high aesthetic quality, is a passionate service to the values ??of freedom, defending the weak and strong elements that underlie modern democratic systems support.  European citizen, Günter Grass is an internationally recognized author, who considered inseparable from art and morality, "according to the jury.

The presentation of the awards took place on October 22 in a ceremony presided over by His Majesty King Philip VI, then Prince of Asturias, and which also gave speeches of His Majesty: Günter Grass, John Glenn and the then President Foundation, José Ramón Álvarez Rendueles.

Source: Logopress