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 ...

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 ...

German author Günter Grass has died at the age of 87 in Lübeck, Germany following an infection. He is one of the most important German writers of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for ...

'In time, perhaps, your country will think about its colonial crimes. No country has the right to point only at the Germans. Everybody has to empty their own latrine.' Günter Grass talks to Maya Jaggi ...

The German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass has compared the Israeli interior minister to the Stasi, the latest move in an escalating dispute following Grass's publication of a poem criticising ...

Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning author of acclaimed memoirs Peeling the Onion and The Box, has revealed that his new book will be his last venture into autobiography. Grass, 82, has just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...