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Imre Kertész
AuthorBooks · Second hand1929-2016
Imre Kertész 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. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
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About Imre Kertész
Birth
1929
Death
2016
First book
1975
Years writing
51
Imre Kertész 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. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
Imre Kertész was a prominent Hungarian writer who survived concentration camps during the Holocaust.
His masterpiece, Fatelessness, reflects the fragility of the individual experience against historical barbarism.
Beyond being a novelist, he had a prolific career as a translator, journalist, and screenwriter.
In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his courageous literary testimony.
Throughout his life, Kertész held both Hungarian and German citizenship.
