Kertesz, Imre, KER tehs, ihm RAY (1929-...), a Hungarian novelist, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in literature. He is the first Hungarian author to win the literature prize. Kertesz's fiction reflects his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (1939-1945) and also under Communist dictatorship in Hungary after the war. The Swedish Academy, which awarded the prize, cited Kertesz "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."