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- The native form of this personal name is Kertész Imre. This article uses the Western name order.
Kertész (right) with a friend
Imre Kertész (IPA: [imrɛ ˈkɛrteːs]) (born November 9, 1929, Budapest) is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature[1] in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
[edit] Biography
He was born on November 9, 1929 in Budapest, Hungary[2]. At age 14 he was deported with other Hungarian Jews during World War II to the Auschwitz concentration camp[2].
Kertész' best-known work, Fatelessness (Sorstalanság), describes the experience of fifteen-year-old György (George) Köves in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz. Some have interpreted the book as quasi-autobiographical, but the author disavows a strong biographical connection. His writings translated into English include Kaddish for a Child Not Born (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért) and Liquidation (Felszámolás). Kertész initially found little appreciation for his writing in Hungary[2] and moved to Germany. Mr. Kertész started translating German works into Hungarian[2] and did not publish another novel until the late 1980s[3]. He continues to write in Hungarian and submits his works to publishers in Hungary.
A film based on his novel Fatelessness was made in Hungary in 2005 for which he wrote the script[3]. Although sharing the same title, the movie is more autobiographical than the book. The film was released at various dates throughout the world in 2005 and 2006.
[edit] Political views on the Magyar minority in Romania
In a petition addressed to European and Romanian leaders, Kertész requested the opening of a separate Hungarian-language (Magyar) university to serve the 1.5 million-strong Hungarian minority in Romania. In an article published on 22 February 2006 by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Ceauşescu's Institute", Kertész launched a virulent attack against the Babeş-Bolyai University in the city Cluj-Napoca in the Transylvanian region of Romania, calling the university "a relic of the national-socialist era".
- Fateless (Sorstalanság) (1975]]). English Translations:
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- Az angol lobogó (1991)
- Gályanapló (1992)
- A holocaust mint kultúra : három előadás (1993)
- Jegyzőkönyv / Imre Kertész ; Élet és Irodalom / Esterházy Péter (1993)
- Valaki más : a változás krónikája (1997)
- A gondolatnyi csend, amíg a kivégzőosztag újratölt (1998)
- A száműzött nyelv (2001)
- Felszámolás {Liquidation) (2003)
[edit] Works of Imre Kertész in English
- Fatelessness / translated by Tim Wilkinson. New York: Knopf, 2004.
- Fateless / translated by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson: Northwestern University Press, 1992.–Uniform title: ISBN 0810110490
- Kaddish for an Unborn Child / translated by Tim Wilkinson: Vintage, 2004. ISBN 1400078628
- Kaddish for a child not born / translated by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson.–Evanston, Ill. : Hydra Books, 1997.–Uniform title: ISBN 0810111616
- Liquidation / translated by Tim Wilkinson: Knopf, 2004. ISBN 1400041538
- Detective Story / translated by Tim Wilkinson: Harvill Secker, 2008. ISBN 1846551838
- The Pathseeker / translated by Tim Wilkinson: Melville House, 2008. ISBN 978-1-933633-53-4
[edit] Works about Kertész
- Vasvári, Louise O. and Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (eds.) Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 8. The first English-language volume on Kertész including papers by scholars in Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, and the United States. It also includes the first English edition of a text by Imre Kertész, "Galley Boat-Log (Gályanapló): Excerpt(s)" translated by Tim Wilkinson, a review article about books on Jewish Identity and anti-Semitism in Central Europe by Barbara Breysach, and a bibliography of Imre Kertész's works. [1][2].
- Molnár, Sára. "Nobel in Literature 2002 Imre Kertész's Aesthetics of the Holocaust." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 5.1 (2003) [3]
- Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "And the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to Imre Kertész, Jew and Hungarian." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 5.1 (2003) [4]
- Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize, Public Discourse, and the Media." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 7.4 (2005) [5]
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Sorstalanság • A nyomkereső • Detektívtörténet • A kudarc • Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért • Az angol lobogó • Gályanapló • A holocaust mint kultúra : három előadás • Valaki más : a változás krónikája • A gondolatnyi csend, amíg a kivégzőosztag újratölt • A száműzött nyelv • Felszámolás
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