Imre Kert sz
Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
Kertész' best-known work, Fateless (Sorstalanság) describes the experience of a sixteen-year-old boy in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeiz. It has been interpreted as quasi-autobiographical, but the author disavows a strong biographical connection. Among his writings translated into English is Kaddish for a Child Not Born (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért).
External links
- The Accidental Hungarian (http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/hun021010.html) an article on Kertész
- The Last Word (http://isurvived.org/KerteszINTERVIEW.html) an interview with Kertész
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Categories: 1929 births | Nobel Prize in Literature winners | Writers | Hungarian writers | Hungarian people