April.15

"Even if one day people stop or are forced to stop writing and publishing, if books are no longer available, there will still be storytellers giving us mouth-to-ear artificial respiration, spinning old stories in new ways: lould and soft, heckling and halting, now close to laughter, now on the brink of tears."

Günter Grass, a German novelist who had been famous for The Tin Drum, said in his lecture upon being awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1999. He passed away on April 13, aged 87.