Hungarian wins Nobel literature prize

Hungarian Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Prize in literature today for writing that “upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”.

Hungarian Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Prize in literature today for writing that “upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”.

Kertesz, who was incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz as a teenager, wrote about people being subjected to social forces.

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