The world literary community mourns the loss of Gunter Grass

LUBE. On Monday, April 13, in the 87th year, in the city clinic of the German city of Lübeck, the Nobel Prize in Literature, German writer Gunter Grass, passed away. In recent years, the author was often sick, he himself told the public about his health problems, linking them with his venerable age. In January 2014, he announced that he was stopping his literary work, because in his declining years he decided to devote himself to watercolor painting and drawing.

At the event dedicated to this mournful event, the mayor of the city of Lübeck, Bernd Sachs, said that the death of Gunter Grass is a great loss not only for Lübeck, but also for all German and world literature. In turn, Klasu Steck, president of the Berlin Academy of Arts, emphasized that "in the person of Grasse, the world has lost one of the most loud authors.

Guenther Grass’s last novel, Words of Grimm, was released in 2010. In it, the author spoke about the incredible life of the storytellers of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In 2012, Grass published a poem in which he severely criticized Israel’s policy towards Iran. In his poem, the author called Israel “the violator of the fragile peace” and called on the entire world community to take control of the atomic program of this state. In response, the Israeli authorities declared the writer a persona non grata and stated that his poem provokes the emergence of an anti-Semitic mood.

Gunter Grass will be born on October 16, 1927 in Danzig (a Free city-state formed in 1920, and since 1945 - the city of Gdansk as part of Poland). His debut in literature - the novel "Tin Drum" immediately brought Grasse worldwide fame. The film, based on this novel, won the Oscar and the Golden Palm Branch of the Cannes Film Festival. Also, he wrote such famous novels and novels as “The Cat and the Mouse,” “The Camera. Stories from a dark room ”,“ Under local anesthesia ”,“ Onion of memory ”and others. In 1999, Gunter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature with the wording “His playful and gloomy parables illuminate the forgotten image of history.”

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