Imre Kertes died © 24.hu 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.