31 March 2016 | Imre Kertész (b. 1929), Hungarian Jewish writer & Holocaust survivor died. His works - including Fateless - draw repeatedly on his experience at Auschwitz. Kertész won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature. https://nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2002/kertesz/biographical/

"Whenever I think of the traumatic impact of Auschwitz, I end up dwelling on the vitality and creativity of those living today. Thus, in thinking about Auschwitz, I reflect, paradoxically, not on the past but the future."
(Imre Kertész)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2002

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 was awarded to Imre Kertész "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"

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