Imre Kertesz

Non-Fiction Author
BIRTHDAY
November 9,1929
Birthplace
Hungary
Age
Mar 31,2016,age 86
Birth Sign
Scorpio
BIRTHDAY
November 9,1929 (age Mar 31,2016,age 86)
Birthplace
Hungary

About

Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor. His best-known works include Fatelessness, Liquidation, and Kaddish for a Child Not Born.

Before Fame

At the age of fourteen, he was imprisoned by the Nazis at the intheir Auschwitz concentration camp. He was later transferred to the Buchenwald camp.

Trivia

He translated Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy from German into Hungarian.

Family Life

He was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary.

Associated With

He criticized director Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List for its inaccurate depiction of the Holocaust.