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Kertész received the Kossuth Prize and the Jeanette Schocken Prize, as well as the Goethe Medal. Then, in 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Hungarian writer to receive that honor. The prize marked a significant moment in his career and in Hungarian literary history.\n\nKertész died in Budapest on March 31, 2016, in the same city where he had been born eighty-six years earlier. The 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature stands as a concrete measure of the recognition his work received, and it came to a writer who spent his life working across two languages and holding citizenship in two countries. 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