The author of that play, B., first appeared in a novel by this man in which he constantly recalls the word "no," indicating his refusal to subject a child to the suffering of the world.
One of this man's novels dubs the forces governing an authoritarian state "the logic" and is about a former secret policeman named Antonio Rojas Martens, who is on death row for his involvement in the "Salinas affair." His recurring characters include the philosopher Dr. Oblath, who waits in a publication office with Kurti and Sarah at the beginning of a play discovered by the editor Kingbitter in another of his novels. The author of that play, B., first appeared in a novel by this man in which he constantly recalls the word "no," indicating his refusal to subject a child to the suffering of the world. This author of Detective Story drew on his own life for a novel in which Gyuri Koves learns how to survive Zeitz from Bandi Citrom after earlier stops in Buchenwald and Auschwitz. For 10 points, name this author of Liquidation, Kaddish for a Child Not Born, and Fatelessness, a Nobel laureate from Hungary.
One of this man's novels dubs the forces governing an authoritarian state "the logic" and is about a former secret policeman named Antonio Rojas Martens, who is on death row for his involvement in the "Salinas affair."
Imre Kertesz ("ker-tesh") [accept names in either order]