article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass, best known around the world for Grass novel
article_snippet.sent: In his excavation of the past, Günter Grass goes deeper than most and his unearths the intertwined roots of good and evil," the Nobel committee wrote, when the Nobel committee awarded German the literature prize in 1999.
article_snippet.sent: Günter Grass novel characters are the forgotten, the downtrodden and the weird, the Nobel committee said.
article_snippet.sent: This was a literary innovation, the Nobel committee said, which was furthered by other great authors, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie.
article_snippet.sent: A true giant, inspiration, and friend."
article_snippet.sent: the Nobel committee praised Günter Grass mastery of the German language and he ability to artfully exploit the German language possibilities of creating seemingly endless yet graceful sentences.
article_snippet.sent: In he later years, he became known for he continuing critique of human history in the 20th century -- and of current events.