Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass, best known for his novel “The Tin Drum,” has died, his publisher said Monday. He was 87.
Grass died in a clinic in the city of Lubeck, where he was taken over the weekend, said Steidl publishing spokeswoman Claudia Glenewinkel.
Grass focused in much of his work on learning from the horror of war by exploring motifs from his childhood city of Danzig, now known as Gdansk, Poland.
His characters are the forgotten, the downtrodden, the Nobel committee said, when it awarded him the literature prize in 1999. And like the boy in “The Tin Drum,” they often slip into surreal situations.
