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Hungarian wins literature Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A concentration camp survivor who drew on his experience to write about the cruelty of fate has won the Nobel Prize for literature. Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz, who was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager in 1944 before being moved to Buchenwald, was awarded the prestigious $1 million award on Thursday for his portrayal of people being subjected to social forces. The 72-year-old, who was born in Budapest, was praised by judges for writing that upholds "the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." He was noted for his "refusal to compromise." The Swedish Academy singled out Kertesz's debut novel, "Sorstalansag" ("Fateless"), in which he writes about a young man who is arrested and taken to a concentration camp but conforms and survives. "For him Auschwitz is not an exceptional occurrence," the academy said. "It is the ultimate truth about human degradation in modern experience." Kertesz was liberated from Buchenwald at the end of the war in 1945. The 18 lifetime members of the 216-year-old academy make the annual selection in deep secrecy at one of their weekly meetings. Other nominees are not revealed publicly for 50 years, leaving the literary world to only guess about who else was in the running. However, many of the same critically acclaimed authors are believed to be on the short list every year. The prize is the latest in a string of Nobel announcements this week, which began with the medicine award on Monday and which will finish with the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Two Britons and an American won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that have shed light on diseases like AIDS as well as strokes. (Full story) The chemistry prize was won by scientists from the United States, Japan and Switzerland for developing methods of identifying and analysing large biological molecules, such as proteins. (Full story) The Nobel in economic sciences was awarded to two Americans for their work using psychological research and laboratory experiments in economic analysis. (Full Story) Copyright 2002 CNN. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.
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