Gunter Grass Dies at 87: Nobel Prize winning writer dies in hospital in northern Germany
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Grass was a German novelist and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text in European magic realism. He was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Grass died of a lung infection in a Lübeck hospital at the age of 87.