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| Imre Kertész |
"Kertész's work as an essayist shows an enlightened thinker who has learnt the lessons of the barbarism of both fascism and communism," the jury for the award said.
Kertész's best-known book, Fatelessness, is based on his experiences during the Holocaust.
The award, which comes with a EUR 12,000 purse, is granted every other year at the Frankfurt Book Fair. It was presented to the Slovenian writer Drago Jancar in 2007.
Jean Améry was an was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the Gestapo and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: epa
