Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929 to a Jewish family and deported at age 14 to Auschwitz and later Buchenwald during the Holocaust, surviving until liberation in 1945. He worked as a journalist and translator in Budapest under Communist rule, facing censorship, before moving to Berlin in the 1990s, where his works gained greater recognition. He won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history and died in Budapest in 2016.