- His book "Fateless" is part of the Hungarian high school curriculum.
- Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
- Survivor of the Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz.
- At age 14 he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He later was transferred to the Buchenwald camp, which was liberated in 1945.
- After WWII, he returned to Budapest, working as a journalist and translator. He translated into Hungarian the works of Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, and Elias Canetti.
- Lived in Berlin, Germany and Budapest, Hungary.
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