October 10, a Hungarian Jew Imre Kertesh has received the Nobel Prize in literature. The laureate knows about Holocaust and horrors of Nazi concentration camps not only from words. These are the main, if not the only, themes of his all most famous novels "Without fate" and "Kaddisha of an unborn child". The name of such work as "Moments of silence - while the execution brigade reloads their guns" speaks for itself.

The hero of novel "Sorstalansag" ("Hopeless"), written by Kertesh in 1975, is a young man who was sent to a concentration camp but managed to adapt himself to those awful conditions and, in the long run, to survive.

Kertesh, aged 72, a native of Budapest, was sent in 1944 to Auschwitz and from there - to Buchenwald to be liberated from in 1945.

Kertesh was awarded the Hans Sakl Prize a day prior to his receiving a Nobel Prize in Berlin. During the latter ceremony he said: "If you want to know the truth about the death camps - ask us. We are the last to survive".