Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize-winning author who served in Nazis’ Waffen-SS, dies Grass was declared a persona non grata in Israel in 2012 over a poem claiming that Israel endangered world peace by threatening Iran. April 13, 2015 9:12 am
Gunter Grass: Israel’s response to poem akin to dictatorship German literary giant Gunter Grass said Israel’s decision to bar him entry following publication of his controversial poem resembles the behavior of a dictatorship. April 11, 2012 8:45 pm
Israel declares German poet Gunter Grass persona non grata Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai has declared German Nobel Prize-winning poet Gunter Grass a persona non grata in Israel. April 8, 2012 1:28 pm