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Events on Monday 13 April 2015 2
1927 – 2015Günter GrassWriter, sculptor, Nobel laureate, 1927-2015Günter Grass (1927-2015) — novelist, poet, playwright, sculptor and printmaker. Author of The Tin Drum (1959), the defining work of post-war German literature; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1999); political activist and speechwriter for Willy Brandt; and, in his final decades, the man who shattered his own image as Germany's moral conscience by revealing his Waffen-SS service sixty years after the fact.
2015Günter Grass dies in Lübeck aged 87Günter Grass dies on 13 April 2015 in a clinic in Lübeck, after a brief illness, at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife Ute and six children. His death prompts an outpouring of tributes from world leaders and writers, and a renewed debate about whether his moral authority — undermined by his late confession — can be separated from his literary achievement.