Imre Kertész

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Holocaust survivor Nobel laureate in Literature human novelist writer

Imre Kertész was a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel Prize laureate whose works, especially his novel "Fatelessness," explore the trauma and absurdity of the Holocaust and totalitarianism.

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instanceOf Holocaust survivor ⓘ
Nobel laureate in Literature ⓘ
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Kossuth Prize ⓘ
Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ
Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary ⓘ
countryOfBirth Hungary ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Hungary ⓘ
countryOfDeath Hungary ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1929-11-09 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 2016-03-31 ⓘ
ethnicGroup Jewish ⓘ
familyName Kertész ⓘ
genre Holocaust literature ⓘ
autobiographical fiction ⓘ
philosophical novel ⓘ
givenName Imre ⓘ
imprisonedIn AuschwitzBirkenau ⓘ
surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp

Buchenwald ⓘ
surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp
influencedBy Holocaust experience ⓘ
totalitarian regimes in Hungary ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName Hungarian ⓘ
movement postmodernism ⓘ
name Imre Kertész self-link ⓘ
NobelPrizeCategory Literature ⓘ
NobelPrizeYear 2002 ⓘ
notableWork Fatelessness ⓘ
Fiasco ⓘ
Kaddish for an Unborn Child ⓘ
Liquidation ⓘ
occupation essayist ⓘ
novelist ⓘ
translator ⓘ
placeOfBirth Budapest ⓘ
placeOfDeath Budapest ⓘ
religion Judaism ⓘ
residence Berlin ⓘ
Budapest ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
subjectOf Holocaust ⓘ
absurdity of existence ⓘ
totalitarianism ⓘ
trauma ⓘ
writingStyle first-person narrative ⓘ
ironic distance ⓘ

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Imre Kertész → name → Imre Kertész self-link ⓘ
Herder Prize → notableRecipient → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Farrar, Straus and Giroux → hasPublished → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Holocaust literature → hasNotableAuthor → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Fatelessness → author → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Kaddish for an Unborn Child → author → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Fiasco → author → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Liquidation → author → Imre Kertész ⓘ
Holocaust survivors → notableMember → Imre Kertész ⓘ