Publishing Company Blog: Imre Kertész, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Hungarian novelist, whose fiction drew from his experience as a prisoner in Nazi death camps, has died after a long illness

Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel literature prize, has died aged 86 after a long illness.

Kertész became a Nobel laureate for works the judges said portrayed the Nazi death camps as “the ultimate truth” about how low human beings could fall.