German novelist and Nobel Prize winner “Guenter Grass:“ has died, aged 87.br br He was best known for “works:“ such as “The Tin Drum.”br br Grass was born in the Baltic port of Danzig – now Gdansk in Poland – in 1927, and much of his fiction was set in the city. br br He spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer’s duty was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate. br br For many, he was the voice of a German generation that came of age in World War Two and bore the burden of their parents’ guilt for Nazi atrocities. br br However, a belated revelation in 2006 that he had served in the Nazi Waffen-SS as a teenager cast some doubt on his moral authority. br br Grass died in a hospital in Luebeck, near his home town in northern Germany.