Pfupisa nyaya yacho:  (CNN) Guenter Grass, akahwina mubairo weNobel muzvinyorwa, anozivikanwa zvikuru munyika yose nokuda kwenyaya yake inonzi "The Tin Drum", afa, muparidzi wake akadaro Muvhuro. Akanga ava nemakore 87. Grass akafira mukiriniki muguta reLuebeck, kwaakaendeswa mukupera kwevhiki, akadaro mutauriri weSteidl Claudia Glenewinkel. Vezvenhau veGermany vari kutaura kuti akafa nepneumonia. Grass akaisa pfungwa dzake mubasa rake guru pakudzidza kubva mukutyisa kwehondo uye kuparadza rudzi kuburikidza nekutsvakurudza mifananidzo kubva kuguta rake rehuduku reDanzig, iro zvino riri Gdansk, Poland. Munguva yevaNazi, vanhu vorudzi rwechiPolish nevaJudha vaitambudzwa uye vaidzingwa muguta racho raiva nemarudzi akasiyana-siyana, panguva yavaigona kuurayiwa vakawanda. "Mukuchera kwake nguva yakapfuura, Günter Grass anotsvaka zvakadzama kupfuura vamwe vose uye anobudisa pachena midzi yakabatana yezvakanaka nezvakaipa", rakanyora kudaro dare reNobel, parakamupa mubayiro wake wokunyora mabhuku muna 1999. Asi Grass, munhu anotaura pachena, akaita kuti pave nokukakavadzana mumakore gumi apfuura. Muna 2006, akareurura kuti pazera ramakore 15, muna 1943, akazvipira nokuda kwebasa rechiuto muhondo yeGermany yokurwisa ndokuguma ari mu Waffen SS ine mukurumbira wakashata une ropa. Grass akati akanga asina zvikonzero zvaaisarudza kuita kare ikako, uye kuti, achiri kuyaruka, angave akatonakidzwa nokuva muchikwata chacho, chaaiona panguva iyoyo seboka revanhu vakakurumbira. Gore rimwe gare gare, akanyora nhoroondo yakadzama muThe New Yorker pamusoro pokuti akapedza sei makore ake ehondo kusvikira parufu rwomudzvinyiriri weGermany Adolf Hitler. Makore matatu apfuura, Grass akaunza gakava zvakare, paakabudisa nhetembo mupepanhau reGermany yaikurudzira Germany kusawedzera kutengesera Israeri ngarava dzepasi pegungwa. Mu"Zvinofanira kutaurwa", Grass akapomera Germany kutengesa zvombo kumuvengi angangodaro nemhaka yokuva nemhosva pamusoro peHolocaust. Grass akati Israeri yaigona kushandisa zvombo zvenyukireya kuuraya vanhu vakawanda vokuIran. Vatsinhiri veGermany vakamuzvidza somuvengi wechiJudha asingazivi. Israeri yakashandisa rambidzo yevisa, uye gurukota rezvemukati menyika panguva iyoyo Eli Yishai akazivisa Grass kuva "munhu asingafarirwi" muIsrael, rakashuma kudaro Jerusalem Post. Vanhu vanotaurwa mumabhuku aGrass ndivo vakakanganwika, avo...
Grass akaedza mukunyora kwake kubata neHondo Yenyika II uye nguva yeNazi. Vatambi vake vakanga vari vakadzvinyirirwa, uye manyorerwo ake akapinda mune zvokufungidzira. Akamutsa gakava nokubvuma kwake kuva nhengo yeWaffen SS.