Imre Kertész ( Budapest , November 9, 1929 - Budapest , March 31, 2016 ), was a Hungarian writer and a survivor of the concentration camp where he was captured during World War II . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002 and is the first Hungarian to win that prestigious award. His works deal with topics of the Holocaust as well as topics related to dictators and human rights. [1] He died on March 31, 2016 at his home in Budapest , after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years..