Jewish Journal: Imre Kertesz, Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor, dies aged 86
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Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész 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, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
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culture · Hungarian author (1929–2016) · writer · translator · novelist · journalist · screenwriter · playwright · also Imre Kertész, Imre Kertesz, Kertész, Imre, Kertesz, Imre, I. Kertész, I. Kertesz
Born 9 November 1929 · Died 31 March 2016 · Q47755
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2016· 7 entries
SFGate: Imre Kertesz, Nobel literature laureate, dies at 86
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Hindustan Times: Imre Kertesz: Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, dies at 86
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Wall Street Journal: Nobel Literature Laureate Imre Kertész Dies at 86
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Died 2016-03-31.
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“Przyszłość: to, czego nikt nie potrafi sobie wyobrazić (tak jak pogody), co jednak nadchodzi.”
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“Przypadki nie istnieją, wszystko dzieje się dla mnie i przeze mnie, a kiedy już przejdę moją drogę, u jej kresu zrozumiem własne życie.”
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen (2014).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Améry award (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Marion Samuel Prize (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Won Ernst Reuter Medal (2006).
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2005).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin (2005).
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A film based on the novel, for which he wrote the script, was made in Hungary
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2004).
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Won Goethe Medal (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2003).
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2002).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Budapest (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (2001).
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Awarded Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (complimentary gift) (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Herder Prize (2000).
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (1997).
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Awarded Kossuth Prize (1997).
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Awarded Friedrich Gundolf Prize (1997).
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Awarded Jeanette Schocken Prize (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Márai Sándor Prize (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Literaturpreis des Landes Brandenburg (1995).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Déry Tibor Prize (1989).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Füst Milán Prize (1983).
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1951· 1 entry
Lost his job at the journal Világosság (Clarity), when the publication adopted the Communist Party line
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1948· 2 entries
And then went on to find work as a journalist and translator
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Studied at Madách Imre High School (1948).
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1945· 1 entry
Kertész returned to Budapest
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1944· 1 entry
At the age of 14, Kertész was deported with other Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was later sent to Buchenwald
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1940· 1 entry
Started secondary school, where he was put into a special class for Jewish students
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-11-09.
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