This is a 1992 file photo of German novelist Guenther Grass. Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday Sept. 30, 1999. The Swedish Academy cited Grass' first novel, ``The Tin Drum,'' published in 1959. ``Here he comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them....(AP Photo/Rainer Klostermeier)