Quotes by Imre Kertész

About Imre Kertész:

Imre Kertész is a Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet ...

Imre Kertész

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

Imre Kertész

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.

Imre Kertész

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.

Imre Kertész

Author Bio

  • NameImre Kertész
  • DescriptionHungarian writer
  • BornNovember 9, 1929
  • CountryHungary
  • ProfessionWriter; Translator; Novelist; Journalist
  • WorksFatelessness
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science; Kossuth Prize; Herder Prize; Grand Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany With Star; Ernst Reuter Medal; ; Sándor Márai Prize