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Kertész, Imre
(1929- ) Hungarian writer. Imre Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary. Of Jewish descent, he was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. He worked at Birkenau until he was liberated in 1945. His first book was "Sorstalanság."
Classic Lit. - Nobel Prize in Literature
By the terms of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will (1896), the Nobel Prize for Literature is given to the person who has produced "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in the field of literature.
Imre Kertész - Biobibliographical notes
"Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on 9th November 1929. He is of Jewish descent. 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and from there to Buchenwald, where he was liberated in 1945."
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Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002
"In his writing Imre Kertész explores the possibility of continuing to live and think as an individual in an era in which the subjection of human beings to social forces has become increasingly complete."