Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész (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.

Kertész died in Budapest, Hungary from complications of Parkinson's disease on 31 March 2016, aged 86.

References

Other websites

 Article on Kertész 
 The Last Word – an interview with Kertész from Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not"


 Imre Kertész—Nobel Lecture 
 B.-ing There , a review of the novel Liquidation by Ben Ehrenreich, Village Voice, 20 December 2004
 Imre Kertész on Jewish.hu's list of famous Hungarians 
 Haaretz article on Kertész

Category:1929 births
Category:2016 deaths
Category:Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Category:Writers from Budapest
Category:Hungarian Nobel Prize winners
Category:Nobel Prize in Literature winners