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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".
Apr 26, 2024 · Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author best known for his semiautobiographical accounts of the Holocaust. In 2002 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. At age 14 Kertész was deported with other Hungarian Jews during World War II to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Mar 31, 2016 · Imre Kertész. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002. Born: 9 November 1929, Budapest, Hungary. Died: 31 March 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Residence at the time of the award: Hungary. Prize motivation: “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history” Language: Hungarian. Prize share: 1/1.
Mar 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 home in Budapest. He was 86.
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Imre Kertész: A Medium for the Spirit of Auschwitz. by Madeleine Gustafsson* Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on November 9, 1929. Not yet fifteen years old, he was deported together with 7,000 other Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and thence to Buchenwald, where he was liberated in 1945.
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Imre Kertész delivered his Nobel Lecture (in Hungarian) in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, 7 December 2002.
Mar 31, 2016 · BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Imre Kertesz, the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi...
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