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Imre Kertész
1929–2016
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- writer
Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ËimrÉ ËkÉrteËs]; 9 November 1929 â 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".
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ËimrÉ ËkÉrteËs]; 9 November 1929 â 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.
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