Creator Bio
Imre Kertész
1929–2016
Imre Kertész, a Hungarian writer and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Literature born in Budapest, was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. After liberation from Buchenwald, he returned to Hungary as a translator before writing his own novels, which were strongly influenced by his experiences in the concentration camps. In 2005 his novel Sorstalanság (Fateless) was adapted into a film.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Kaddish for a Child Not Born
A Holocaust survivor grapples with the question: should one bring children into the world after experiencing the horrors of the death camps?