Imre Kertesz, the only Hungarian to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was buried on Friday in Budapest.
Kertész died at age 86 after a lengthy and serious illness on March 31. He was granted the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work Fatelessness.
Kertész, who was Jewish, was deported to the Auschwitz German concentration camp at the age of 14 in 1944, and eventually sent to Buchenwald.
Writers Péter Eszterházy and György Spiró paid farewell to Kertész. Spiró said Kertész was "the freest man" he knew during the decades when Hungary was under communism.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and German parliament speaker Norbert Lammert were among those paying their respects at the ceremony. Kertesz lived in Germany for many years before returning to Hungary a few years ago.
