Imre Kertész
Full Name: Imre Kertész
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Profession: Author and Nobel Laureate
Why Famous: Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, 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”.
Born: November 9, 1929
Star Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Historical Events in the Life of Imre Kertész
- 2002-10-10 Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
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