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Imre Kertész
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Imre Kertész in Szeged (2007)
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Born | Budapest, Hungary |
9 November 1929
Died | 31 March 2016 Budapest, Hungary |
(aged 86)
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.
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