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.