Imre Kertesz, Nobel Laureate Who Survived Holocaust, Dies at 86

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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.

 

Mr. Kertesz had been suffering from a chronic illness, said Krisztian Nyary, the head of Magveto Publishing, which publishes Mr. Kertesz’s works in Hungary.

 

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.

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/world/europe/imre-kertesz-dies.html?_r=0