Imre Kertész: Quick Facts

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Born	November 9, 1929 • Budapest • Hungary
Died	March 31, 2016 (aged 86) • Budapest • Hungary
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2002)
Notable Works	“Fateless”

Doris Lessing

British writer

Henrik Pontoppidan

Danish author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Albert Camus

French author

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russian author

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian author

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Saul Bellow

American author

Jose Saramago, wearing glasses and a dark suit, sits with his hands clasped and smiles at an event in Madrid.

José Saramago

Portuguese author

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish author

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

Herta Müller

Romanian-born German writer

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

Péter Nádas

Hungarian author

József, Baron Eötvös

Hungarian writer

Károly Eötvös

Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Annie Ernaux

French author

William Faulkner

American author

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