Imre Kertesz author biography, plus links to books by Imre Kertesz.

Imre Kertesz

Imre Kertész was born in 1929 and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a youth. He worked as a journalist and playwright before publishing his first novel, in 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He lives in Budapest and Berlin. This book is translated by Tim Wilkinson.

This biography was last updated on 01/22/2008.

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