Mar 31 2016
Imre Kertesz, a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel laureate acclaimed for his semi-autobiographical novels on surviving the Holocaust and its aftermath, died on Thursday at his home in Budapest. He was 86 years old.
What set Mr. Kertesz apart from other writers on the Holocaust was his insistence on describing the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald without outrage, especially in his definitive work, "Fateless," first published in 1975.
"The novel uses the alienating device of taking the reality of the camp completely for granted, an everyday existence like any other," the Swedish Nobel committee said in awarding him its 2002 prize in literature.
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