Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on 9 November 1929 into a middle-class Jewish family. Deported at fourteen to Auschwitz, then to Buchenwald, he returned to Budapest in 1945. A journalist at Világosság, he lost his post in 1951 when the paper aligned itself with the party, then from 1953 lived on translations of Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein or Canetti. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002, he settled for a time in Berlin, then died in Budapest on 31 March 2016.

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• NovelFatelessnessSorstalanságImre Kertész · 1975Literature