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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".
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. On his return to Hungary he worked for a Budapest newspaper, Világosság, but was dismissed in 1951 when it adopted the Communist party line.
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.
- Jonathan Kandell
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.
Nov 17, 2003 · 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.
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 ...
