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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.
- 31 March 2016 (aged 86), Budapest, Hungary
- Novelist
- hungarian
Apr 26, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biographical. English. Hungarian (pdf) Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on November 9, 1929. Of Jewish descent, in 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and from there to Buchenwald, where he was liberated in 1945.
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...
- Jonathan Kandell
Apr 1, 2016 · Imre Kertész obituary. Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel prize for literature. George Gomori. Thu 31 Mar 2016 08.25 EDT. “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote the German...
- George Gomori
Mar 31, 2016 · The death of Imre Kertész, the Hungarian writer, has robbed central Europe not only of one of its most distinctive literary voices but of a figure who bore witness to Hungary’s darkest events...
Mar 31, 2016 · Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel literature prize, has died aged 86 after a long illness. Kertész became a Nobel laureate for works the judges...
