Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz who won the 2002 Nobel Prize, former prisoner of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, died at the age of 86 after a long illness, Lenta reported referring to Reuters.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Kertész “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".

Imre Kertész was born in a poor Jewish family. During World War II at the age of 15 he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp.

Kertész's the two most famous novels are "Fateless" (1975) and "Kaddish for an Unborn Child" (1990).