# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/imre-kertesz
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:21.460Z

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name: "Imre Kertész"
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description: "He survived the German camps as a teenager and spent decades after rendering that experience into fiction — the individual self crushed under history's machinery, written in prose so precise it won him the Nobel in 2002."
tagline: "Hungarian author (1929–2016)"
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deathDate: "2016-03-31"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Budapest on 9 November 1929, Kertész was deported to German concentration and death camps during the war while still in his teens. He returned and lived under Hungary's dictatorship, working quietly for years on fiction that turned survival into a formal problem: how to hold the fragile human experience against history's barbaric arbitrariness. That work eventually earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002, making him the first Hungarian so honored. He continued exploring themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom until his death on 31 March 2016.