Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész
Jewish-
Hungarian author
Imre Kertész (born
November 9,
1929) was the 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". His writings describe his experiences as a sixteen-year-old boy in the
concentration camps of
Auschwitz,
Buchenwald and Zeits. Among his writings translated into English is
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (
Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért).