WRITER

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 547,606 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Imre Kertész is the 209th most popular writer (down from 199th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Hungary 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

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  • 72.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Imre Kertész ranks 209 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Mario Vargas Llosa. After him are Anacreon, Johanna Spyri, Sigrid Undset, Maurice Leblanc, Carlo Goldoni, and Diogenes Laërtius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Imre Kertész ranks 13. Before him are Bud Spencer, Martin Luther King Jr., Jürgen Habermas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, and Hassan II of Morocco. After him are Irene Papas, Jacques Brel, Yayoi Kusama, Michael Ende, Jean Baudrillard, and Frank Gehry. Among people deceased in 2016, Imre Kertész ranks 13. Before him are David Bowie, Debbie Reynolds, Alan Rickman, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Leonard Cohen, and Zaha Hadid. After him are Dario Fo, Andrzej Wajda, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Islam Karimov, Cesare Maldini, and Carlos Alberto Torres.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Imre Kertész ranks 17 out of 1,077. Before him are George Soros (1930), Miklós Horthy (1868), Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Imre Nagy (1896), Louis II of Hungary (1506), and Louis I of Hungary (1326). After him are Árpád (845), Gaiseric (389), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Robert Capa (1913), John Zápolya (1487), and Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440).

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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 Sándor Márai (1900), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), and Nikolaus Lenau (1802).

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