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Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertesz dies

Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertesz dies
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Imre Kertesz, 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 died. He was 86.
 
Book publishing firm Magveto Kiado said Kertesz died at 4 a.m. Thursday at his Budapest home after a long illness.