Writing · Writer · Novel · Screenplay
Born Nov 9, 1929 · Budapest, Hungary
Active 2005–2016 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Kossuth Prize, Herder Prize, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ernst Reuter Medal, Literaturpreis des Landes Brandenburg, Márai Sándor Prize
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".