Imre Kertész - Nobel Prize in Literature — 2002
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Imre Kertész

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 2002
for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history
Citizenship
GermanyGermanyHungaryHungary
Languages
German, Hungarian
date of birth
11/9/1929
place of birth
Budapest
date of death
3/31/2016
place of death
Budapest
Lived
86 years

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occupation
  • journalist
  • playwright
  • screenwriter
  • translator
  • writer
  • novelist
field of work
  • The Holocaust
educated at
  • Madách Imre High School
    • end time: 1948
work location
  • Berlin
member of
  • Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts
    • start time: 2009
  • Academy of Arts, Berlin
  • German Academy for Language and Literature
notable work
  • Liquidation
  • Fatelessness
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