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Imre Kertész

1929 - 2016

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Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈkɛrteːs]; 9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author 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". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Imre Kertész has received more than 514,895 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Imre Kertész is the 199th most popular writer (up from 208th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Writer.

Imre Kertész is a Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor. He is most famous for his novel, "Fateless," which tells the story of a 15-year-old Jewish boy who is sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944.

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  • 510k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Imre Kertész ranks 199 out of 5,755. Before him are Karen Blixen, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Tristan Tzara, Ian Fleming, Osamu Dazai, and Emily Dickinson. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, Herman Melville, Taras Shevchenko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Friedrich Hölderlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Imre Kertész ranks 12. Before him are Bud Spencer, Milan Kundera, Lev Yashin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, and Sergio Leone. After him are Jacques Brel, Hassan II of Morocco, Max von Sydow, Jean Baudrillard, Yayoi Kusama, and Frank Gehry. Among people deceased in 2016, Imre Kertész ranks 12. Before him are David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Alan Rickman, Debbie Reynolds, Shimon Peres, and Bhumibol Adulyadej. After him are Zaha Hadid, Dario Fo, Cesare Maldini, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Islam Karimov, and Andrzej Wajda.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Imre Kertész ranks 17 out of 866. Before him are Stephen I of Hungary (975), Miklós Horthy (1868), Imre Nagy (1896), Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Gaiseric (389), and Louis I of Hungary (1326). After him are Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Count of St. Germain (1712), Robert Capa (1913), Árpád (845), György Lukács (1885), and Victor Vasarely (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Imre Kertész ranks 2. Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860). After him are Ágota Kristóf (1935), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Arthur Koestler (1905), Felix Salten (1869), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), Magda Szabó (1917), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), and Béla Balázs (1884).

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