Topic - Günter Grass

• China's popular Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

  Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.

• Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

  Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.

• Prominent translator Michael Henry Heim dies

  Michael Henry Heim, an internationally known translator who created highly praised English versions of such masterpieces as "Death in Venice" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," has died. He was 69.

• Guenter Grass set for quick hospital release

  Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass is expected to return home within days after being admitted to hospital for what his secretary called a routine examination.

• Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban

  Guenter Grass says Israel's decision to bar him from visiting the country because of his poem criticizing the Jewish state reminds him of similar steps that dictatorial governments have taken against him.

• Iran praises Guenter Grass poem criticizing Israel

  A senior Iranian official has praised Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass for a poem criticizing Israel, saying he has beautifully carried out his human and historical responsibility.

• Grass says critical poem meant to target Netanyahu

  German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass, under fire for a poem that sharply criticized Israel, said he was singling out the Jewish state's government, not the country as a whole.

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  Grass sparks firestorm with poem on Israel, nukes

  German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass labeled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace" in a poem published Wednesday that drew sharp rebukes at home and from Israel.

• Nobel winner Grass: Israel a threat to world peace

  German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass labeled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace" in a poem published Wednesday that drew sharp rebukes at home and from Israel.

• Winners of Nobel Prize in literature since 1960

  Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:

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  Nobel literature juror in RI denies prize biases

  The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature isn't biased toward European writers or against American writers, a member of the panel said Wednesday.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Fame'

  At age 35, Daniel Kehlmann is already well-established as a successful novelist with an international following. When "Measuring the World," his first big book, appeared in 2007, British critic Daniel Johnson went happily out on a limb: "Daniel Kehlmann has it in him to be the great German novelist that the world had given up waiting for."

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