Imre Kertész
Imre Kertesz (9 November 1929 - 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author. He was a Holocaust concentration camp survivor. He wrote his autobiographical roman fatelessness. In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature," for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history" . He was born in Budapest, Hungary.
Kertesz died in Budapest, Hungary from complications of Parkinson' s disease on 31 March 2016, aged 86.
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Other websites
Article on Kertesz
The Last Word - an interview with Kertesz from Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project:" Forget You Not"
Imre Kertesz--Nobel Lecture
B. -ing There, a review of the novel Liquidation by Ben Ehrenreich, Village Voice, 20 December 2004
Imre Kertesz on Jewish. hu' s list of famous Hungarians
Haaretz article on Kertesz
1929 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson' s disease
Writers from Budapest
Hungarian Nobel Prize winners