Imre Kertesz

Imre Kertész (1929–2016) was a Hungarian writer, translator, and journalist. In 1944, as a teenager, he was deported to Auschwitz and liberated at Buchenwald in 1945. After the war, he initially worked as a journalist, later becoming a freelance writer and translator. From 1960 onward, he worked on his novel Fatelessness, which drew on his experiences of deportation and was first published in Hungary in 1975. Kertész received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for his body of work.