Imre Kertész was born on 9 November 1929 in Budapest. A Hungarian writer, Kertesz survived deportation to Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager, an experience that was the foundation of his work. His best-known novel, Fatelessness, tells the story of a boy in the camps in a detached, ironic voice, and was followed by Fiasco and Kaddish for an Unborn Child. After the war he lived under the communist regime in Hungary, working as a journalist and translator, and he translated authors such as Nietzsche, Freud and Wittgenstein. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002, and later lived in Berlin for many years.
Before and after
- 21 October 1929Birth of Ursula K. Le Guin
- from 24 October 1929 to 29 October 1929Wall Street crash of 1929
- from 29 October 1929 to 1 January 1941Great Depression
- 7 November 1929Construction of Museum of Modern Art
- 9 November 1929Birth of Imre Kertész
- 12 November 1929Birth of Grace Kelly
- 15 November 1929Birth of Ed Asner
- 2 December 1929A skull of Peking Man is found at Zhoukoudian
- 13 December 1929Birth of Christopher Plummer
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1925Rise of Art Deco
- 1 May 1931Construction of Empire State Building
- 1935Construction of Da Nang International Airport
- 28 May 1937Construction of Golden Gate Bridge
- 20 May 1940Construction of Auschwitz
- 6 April 1943Publication of The Little Prince
The era
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