IMRE KERTÉSZ
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nd there's no other consolation than a representation we believe to be true.
(Imre Kertész)

1929 born in Budapest
1944 deported to Auschwitz
1949-1950 journalist at the newspaper "Világosság"
1995 Brandenburg Literary Prize
1997 received the Leipzich Book Prize for European Understanding

He writes novels, short stories, essays and plays, and translates literature and philosophy from the German - authors like Nietzsche, Freud, Canetti and Wittgenstein.

 

 

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