Imre Kertesz wins Nobel Prize
Written by Steve Rhodes
Published October 10, 2002
Published October 10, 2002
Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ""for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."
Rick Karr on NPR admitted he didn't know much about Kertesz who is a Holocaust survivor and he is not well known in his own country.
The Guardian has a story with brief excerpts from his two novels currently available in English, Kaddish for a Child Not Born and Fateless.
There is a brief portrait. His story Sworn Statement is from the Autumn 2001 Hungarian Quarterly.
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