Nobel Laureate mobbed by fans

Frankfurt - The newly crowned Nobel laureate, Gunter Grass (71), was given a hero's welcome by adoring fans when he appeared …

Frankfurt - The newly crowned Nobel laureate, Gunter Grass (71), was given a hero's welcome by adoring fans when he appeared yesterday at the world's biggest book fair in Frankfurt.

A week after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, the seasoned left-wing campaigner was ready to aim his barbs at everyone from literary critics to the former finance minister, Mr Oskar Lafontaine.

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