Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2016 (28. évfolyam, 14-50. szám)

2016-04-08 / 15. szám

Imre Kertész, Hungary’s First And Only Nobel-Winning Novelist, Passes Away Imre Kertész, the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction largely drawn from his very real experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentra­tion camps, has passed away at the age of eighty-six. The celebrated novelist was born in the capital on 9 November 1929. A Jewish-Hungarian, he was deported to the Auschwitz, and later Buchenwald concentration camps, in the summer of 1944 at the age of fourteen. He returned to Budapest after the camps were liberated in 1945, subsequently earning a living as a journalist and labourer. Sorstalanság (translated into English as Fateless, 1992 and Fatelessness, 2004), his most famous work for which he won the Nobel Prize, was written over thirteen years, between 1960 and 1973, and has its roots in writings penned between 1955 and 1960. However, success for Mr. Kertész as an author and literary translator only came in the late Eighties and the the transition to democracy in Hungary. A resident of Berlin for several years, he returned to live in Hungary not long ago. Some have interpreted the book as quasi-autobiographical, but the author disavows a strong biographical connection. In 2005, a film based on the novel, for which he wrote the script, was made in Hungary. Although sharing the same title, the film is more autobiographical than the book: it was released internationally at various dates in 2005 and 2006 to mixed critical acclaim. Previously decorated with a number of prestigious domestic and international prizes, including the Herder Prize and the Die Welt Literary Award, on 10 October 2002 Mr. Kertész became the first Hungar­ian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature for his lifetime work, “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”. On 20 August 2014, he received Hungary’s Order of St. Stephen from the Hungarian state, for which he received criticism for accepting it from opposition circles. Politically, Mr. Kertész was a controversial figure within Hungary, especially because even though he was Hungary’s first and only Nobel Laureate in Literaute, he lived in Germany at the time the prize was awarded This tension was exacerbated by a 2009 interview with Die Welt, a German newspaper, in which Kertész vowed himself a “Berliner” and called Budapest “completely balkanized.” Many Hungarian news­papers reacted negatively to this statement, claiming it to be hypocritical. Other critics viewed the Budapest comment ironically, saying it represented “a grudge policy that is painfully and unmistakably, characteristi­cally Hungarian. Kertész later clarified in a television interview that he had intended his comment to be “constructive” and called Hungary “his homeland.” In November 2014 Kertész gave an interview to The New York Times. Kertész claimed the reporter was expecting him to question Hungary’s democratic values and was shocked to hear Kertész say that “the situation in Hungary is nice, I’m having a great time”. According to Kertész, “he didn’t like my answer. His purpose must have been to make me call Hungary a dictatorship which it isn’t. In the end the interview was never published. In a piece published in Hungarian in 2014, he warned that “Europe is beginning to recognise where she has been taken to by her liberal immigration policy. All of a sudden, they have realised that the breed of animal named multicultural society doesn’t exist”. He is survived by his second wife of twenty years, Magda Kertész, hungarytoday.hu Hungarian Roots Celebrities - artists, actors, musicians, sport stars and scientists - who have some Hungarian origin, yet only few would consider them as “par excellence Hungarians”. In many cases even the person concerned knows only very little about his or her Hungarian roots, while others are proud of their “magyar” back­ground despite lacking the ability to say a word or two in the language of their parents or grandparents. Adrien Brody, Oscar-winning American actor Only few know that Adrien Brody, the youngest person ever who won the Acad­emy Award for best actor, has some Hungarian roots too. The American star’s mother, Sylvia Plachy, is renowned Hun­garian-born photographer, who fled Com­munist Hungary as a child during the 1956 revolution against the Soviets. Adrien’s maternal grandfather was from an aris­tocratic Hungarian background, while Adrien’s maternal grandmother was of Czech Jewish descent. Sylvia Plachy was not aware of her own mother’s Jewish background until later in life. Adrien’s father, the history teacher Elliot Brody is of Polish Jewish descent, who lost family members in the Holocaust. As for Adrien Nicholas Brody, he was bom in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, as the only child of his parents. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera. He attended New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of 12, and went on to attend the High School for the Performing Arts. 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