Walser was one of the most important and controversial authors in German post-war literature. His works are versatile, extensive but also controversial, writes the Austrian news agency Apa.
German mirror describes him as one of the country’s most important writers and that the German debating culture would also be unthinkable without him.
Walser was born in Wasserburg, Bavaria, in 1927 and is said to have written his first poems at the age of twelve.
After World War II, he studied literature, among other things, and published his first collection of stories “Ein Flugzeug über dem Haus” in 1955 and his first novel “Marriage in Philippsburg” in 1957.
His most successful book was the 1978 best-seller A Runaway Horse.
Martin Walser was 96 years old