Hungarian Jewish author and Holocaust concentration camp survivor. In 2002, he won 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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Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust survivors, Hungarian Authors, Fiction, general, Hungary, fiction, Interviews, Jews, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction, Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Communism, Jewish authors, Jews, fiction, Biography, Fiction, historical, general, Hungarian literature, Hungarians, Influence, Middle-aged men, Political crimes and offenses, Roman, Suicide, Civilization, Comunismo, FicciónPeople
Imre Kertész (1929-2016), Imre Kertész (1929-), Abel (Biblical figure), Cain (Biblical figure), Eva HaldimannID Numbers
- OLID: OL2827682A
- Amazon ID: B00456PF9G
- BookBrainz: adef7a01-4d4f-4911-a9d2-e2417efb8a6d
- GoodReads: 26496
- ISNI: 0000000121486458
- IMDb: nm1323271
- Library of Congress Names: n91126249
- LibraryThing: kerteszimre
- MusicBrainz: 09ad4ea3-7f5f-4fd3-8c1f-118af122957c
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): VIAV101957
- Storygraph: 4718b473-683f-40e5-83a9-d7d1bae5acd6
- VIAF: 116884614
- Wikidata: Q47755
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q47755
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- Imre Kertesz
- Imre Kertesz (Imre Kertész)
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