Imre Kertész
1929
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2016
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Hungary
native language: Hungarian
educated at: Madách Imre High School
occupation: writer, translator, novelist, journalist, screenwriter
award received: Nobel Prize in Literature, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Kossuth Prize, Herder Prize, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ernst Reuter Medal, Literaturpreis des Landes Brandenburg, Sándor Márai Prize, Milán Füst Prize, Tibor Déry Prize, Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis, Order of Saint Stephen, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Goethe Medal, Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin, Jean Améry award, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, Marion-Samuel-Preis, Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, honorary citizen of Budapest
Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈkɛrteːs]; 9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust (he was a survivor of German concentration and death camps), dictatorship, and personal freedom. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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