Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész, born in Budapest in 1929, was deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 - 14 years old. His book Fateless is an exceptional account of his experiences there. After the collapse of communism in Europe he became a world-famous author and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature. From this time onwards, he lived in Berlin and returned, in poor health, to Budapest in 2012, where he died in March 2016.