DHAKA: Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize winner and author of ‘The Tin Drum’, has died aged 87.

His publisher said he had passed away at a clinic in the city of Luebeck, reports the BBC.

Born in what was then Danzig, Grass served in the German military in World War Two and published his breakthrough anti-Nazi novel, ‘The Tin Drum’, in 1959.

Later in life he became a vocal opponent of German reunification in 1990, and argued afterwards that it had been carried out too hastily.

BDST: 1617 HRS, APR 13, 2015
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