Imre Kertes died

Today, March 31, in Budapest at the age of 86, the Hungarian writer, laureate of the Nobel Prize Imre Kertes, died.

It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Hungarian news agency MTI .

Imre Kertes was born in 1929 in Budapest in a Jewish family, in 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz, and then to Buchenwald. After the liberation, Kertes worked as a journalist, workers, in the 1950s and 1960s he earned a living, composing a libretto for musical comedies. In addition, Kertes translated a lot from the German language, including the works of Nietzsche, Hoffmannstal, Schitzler, Freud and Wittgenstein.

In 1969-1973, Kertes wrote his most famous novel, “Without Fate”, about the 15-year prisoner of Nazi concentrations. Two more novels continued his history - “defeat” (1988) and “Kadish for an unborn child” (1990).

In the mid-1970s, when the novel “Without Fate” first came out, they paid little attention to him, and only after reprinting in 1985 the book brought fame to the author. Subsequently, the novel was translated into many foreign languages, in 2005 a film was shot in Hungary in Hungary.

In 2002, Imre Kertes was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for creativity, "in which the fragility of personality was contrasted with barbaric despotism of history."