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Günter Grass poem praises nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu   Germany’s Nobel laureate describes Vanunu, who spent 18 years in prison for leaking details of Israel’s nuclear programme, as a ‘role model and hero of our time’  Alison Flood guardian.co.uk,  1 October 2012   Germany‘s Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass, who earlier this year was barred from Israel for criticising its nuclear policy, has written a poem praising the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.

 

Vanunu, a former technician at Israel’s secret nuclear plant near Dimona, spent 18 years in prison – much of it in solitary confinement – after leaking details of the country’s nuclear programme to the Sunday Times in 1986. Grass’s new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a “role model and hero of our time” who “hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light”, and calls on Israelis to “recognise … as righteous” the man “who remained loyal to his country all those years”, according to  German reports …… http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/gunter-grass-poem-praises-mordechai-vanunu?newsfeed=true

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