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Wednesday 15 April 2015

The Case For Günter Grass (1927-2015)

Günter Wilhelm Grass (October 16,1927-April 13, 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Grass died of a lung infection on Monday in Lübeck, aged 87.

3 comments:

Richard P said...

Added to "Writers and Their Typewriters"!

(I got the weirdest captcha this time. Nine pictures of food, and I had to "select all cake." What is Google up to NOW?)

Anonymous said...

Great pic. These days airport staff just give you and your typewriter case a WTF look.

rino breebaart said...

A great writer; so much imaginative capacity; so good at reworking (for eg) the Grimm tales; and a very committed citizen. And he kept on using his Olivetti till the end :-)