German Nobel laureate novelist Guenter Grass passed away on 13th  April 2015 in hospital in Lübeck, Berlin. Grass is recognized for his efforts to revive German culture in the aftermath of World War II and also had given voice and support to democratic discourse in the post war Germany.

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• Guenter Grass was born on 16 October 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr (now the Polish city of Gdansk).
• He was a novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor.
• At the age of 16, he had served in the Waffen-SS, the combat arm of former German dictator Adolf Hitler’s notorious paramilitary organization in 1944.
• Grass had made his literary reputation with “The Tin Drum” published in 1959. It was followed by “Cat and Mouse” and “Dog Years”
• These novels were called the Danzig Trilogy named after his birth town.
• Awards and Honours: 
  •  In 1999, he was awarded Nobel Prize for literature for his efforts to revive German literature after the Nazi era.
  •  He recieved Hermann Kesten Prize (1995).
  •  He was also elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993.
  •  The Swedish Academy noted him as a writer “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history“.
  •  In 1965, Grass received the Georg Büchner Prize.
  •  In 2012, Grass received the award ‘2012 European of the Year’ from the European Movement Denmark