Nobel laureate

Imre Kertész — Nobel Prize in Literature 2002

“for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”

Prize motivation

“for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”

The Swedish Academy awarded Imre Kertész the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.

Sources & data

  • Nobel Prize API (CC0).