Imre Kertész was born on November 9, 1929 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Fateless (2005), Emelet (2006) and Csacsifogat (1984). He was married to Magda Ambrus-Sass and Albina Vas. He died on March 31, 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.
His book "Fateless" is part of the Hungarian high school curriculum.
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
Survivor of the Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz.
At age 14 he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He later was transferred to the Buchenwald camp, which was liberated in 1945.
After WWII, he returned to Budapest, working as a journalist and translator. He translated into Hungarian the works of Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, and Elias Canetti.
To my horror, I realized that 10 years after I had returned from the Nazi camps ... all that remained of the experience were a few muddled impressions, a few anecdotes.