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.
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.
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.
