Imre Kertész
November 9, 1929 –March 31, 2016
Writer, Translator, Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter, Playwright
Lived 86 years
- Born in
- Budapest
- Passed away in
- Budapest
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. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust (he was a survivor of German concentration and death camps), dictatorship, and personal freedom.
Notable works: Fatelessness, Liquidation Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Kossuth Prize, Herder Prize, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ernst Reuter Medal, Literaturpreis des Landes Brandenburg, Márai Sándor Prize, Füst Milán Prize, Déry Tibor Prize Education: Madách Imre High School
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