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.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust survivor → Nobel laureate in Literature → human → novelist → writer →
awardReceived	Goethe Prize → 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	Auschwitz concentration camp → Buchenwald concentration camp →
influencedBy	Holocaust experience → totalitarian regimes in Hungary →
languageOfWorkOrName	Hungarian →
movement	postmodernism →
name	Imre Kertész →
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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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Imre Kertész →	name
Buchenwald →	notablePrisoner