Quotes About Imre Kertesz

I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.