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- Imre Kertész was born on November 9, 1929 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Fateless (2005), Emelet (2006) and Csacsifogat (1984). He was married to Magda Ambrus-Sass and Albina Vas. He died on March 31, 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.
- SpousesMagda Ambrus-Sass(1996 - March 31, 2016) (his death)Albina Vas(1962 - October 1995) (her death)
- His book "Fateless" is part of the Hungarian high school curriculum.
- Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
- Survivor of the Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz.
- At age 14 he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He later was transferred to the Buchenwald camp, which was liberated in 1945.
- After WWII, he returned to Budapest, working as a journalist and translator. He translated into Hungarian the works of Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, and Elias Canetti.
- To my horror, I realized that 10 years after I had returned from the Nazi camps ... all that remained of the experience were a few muddled impressions, a few anecdotes.
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