Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész · Arts & Literature
Writing that upholds the individual experience against the barbarism of history (the Holocaust)
1929, Budapest, Hungary — 2016, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary · Germany
Imre Kertész is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Writing that upholds the individual experience against the barbarism of history (the Holocaust)
A Hungarian Jew, Kertész was deported as a teenager in 1944 to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and survived. He turned that experience into 'Fatelessness' and later works that refuse consolation, portraying the concentration camp through the estranged, matter-of-fact eyes of a boy who cannot grasp the machinery destroying him. His writing upholds the fragile individual against the barbarism of history, and in 2002 he became the first Hungarian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Literature 2002
Writing that upholds the individual experience against the barbarism of history (the Holocaust)
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Literature 2002
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