The Resume

(November 9, 1929-March 31, 2016)
Born in Budapest, Hungary
Deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp at age 14
Wrote the novels ‘Fatelessness’ (1975), ‘Fiasco’ (1988), ‘Kaddish for an Unborn Child’ (1990), ‘The Union Jack’ (1991), ‘Liquidation’ (2003) and ‘Dossier K’ (2006)
Won the Nobel Prize in Literature (2002)

Why he might be annoying:

He dismissed Stephen Spielberg’s ‘Schindler’s List’ as ‘kitsch.’
He was not well-known even in his native Hungary until he won the Nobel Prize.
He said, ‘Whenever I sat down to write, it felt like a tragic fate I had to endure.’

Why he might not be annoying:

He avoided the immediate execution that awaited a fourteen-year-old at Auschwitz by claiming to be a sixteen-year-old laborer.
He lost his job as a journalist for refusing to write Communist propaganda (1951).
He translated works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Sigmund Freud into Hungarian.
He said about writing about the Holocaust, ‘I tried to wrangle out the truth somehow, to tell a story that cannot be told.’

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 61]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [November] (Ranked: 11091929)
• Hungary for a Bagel [Hungarian Jews]
• I am Hungarian
• I Died in 2016 (Ranked: 86)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Have Parkinson Disease
• I Lied About My Age - I Made Myself Older
• I Married in 1996
• Newspaper Journalists/Editors/Publishers
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Profiles 37501-37750 (Ranked: 37718)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20160331)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying