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Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈkɛrteːs]; 9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature.
Apr 26, 2024 · Nobel Prize (2002) Notable Works: “Fateless”. Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929, Budapest, Hungary—died March 31, 2016, Budapest) was a Hungarian author best known for his semiautobiographical accounts of the Holocaust. In 2002 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Mar 31, 2016 · By Jonathan Kandell. March 31, 2016. Imre Kertesz, a Nobel laureate who was acclaimed for his semi-autobiographical novels on surviving the Holocaust and its aftermath, died on Thursday at his...
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Apr 1, 2016 · The Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész, who died on March 31 at age 86, was ferociously uncompromising in his identity as a Jewish writer.
Mar 31, 2016 · Life . Imre Kertész was born in Budapest in 1929. He was 14 years old during the Holocaust, when he was taken to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, and later Buchenwald. This trauma is at the heart of Kertész’s writing, and experiences in the camps serve as the basis of both his debut novel Fateless and his later works.
Mar 31, 2016 · As a 14-year-old, living in a boarding school for Jewish boys, he was deported to a series of German concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before ending up at Buchenwald. He survived by...
May 2, 2013 · May 2, 2013. In 1944, when he was fourteen, the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész was arrested and deported to Auschwitz and, from there, to Buchenwald. He was liberated in 1945, and returned to...
