When Viktor Orbán’s nationalist government published its National Basic Curriculum for literature a couple of weeks ago, citizens discovered to their amazement that Imre Kertész, who in 2002 became the first Hungarian awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, was no longer on the “required” reading list. Kertész, who had been deported to Auschwitz and other …
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