Nobel laureate Imre Kertész has died – Aftonbladet

The Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertész has died, according to his publishers told Reuters.

Kertész was 86 years.

the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2002, because” writing that upholds the individual’s fragile experience against the barbaric arbitrariness of history “.

Kertész was sent as a teenager to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Bucenwald later. A year later, in 1945, he became free.

Author career began in 1975 with the novel Fatelessness whose plot revolves around a 14-year-old boy deported to Auschwitz. Last year, his last book, diary novel The last refuge.

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