Imre Kertész facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész in Szeged (2007)
Born	(1929-11-09)9 November 1929 Budapest, Hungary
Died	31 March 2016(2016-03-31) (aged 86) Budapest, Hungary
Occupation	Novelist
Notable works	Fatelessness Kaddish for an Unborn Child Liquidation
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 2002

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.