Swedish Academy

The famous writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is coming to Montenegro on June 19, at the invitation of publishing house Nova knjiga, which has published several of his works.

During a three-day visit, Vergas Llosa will meet with top Montenegrin officials, prominent local writers and, of course, his readers.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday that the death of German author Guenter Grass meant that Europe had lost a ?cultural point of reference? and that Greece had lost a ?valuable friend.?

Gunter Grass, the renowned German author and Nobel Prize winner, has died, Deutsche Welle reported.

The 87-year old Grass passed away in Lübeck, northern Germany, on Monday, 13 April 2015.

Grass was born in 1927 in the free city of Danzig, which is now Gdansk in Poland. After the war, he settled in West Germany.

French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Oct. 9