Fatelessness (Sorstalanság)

The collectible true first is the 1975 Hungarian Sorstalanság (Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, Budapest). English-speaking collectors should note there are TWO distinct English translations and they are not interchangeable: the FIRST English edition is Fateless, translated by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson, published by Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL) in 1992 (hardcover ISBN 0-8101-1024-5; paperback 0-8101-1049-0) — the genuine first English-language appearance, but a version Kertész publicly criticized (he told The Journal News he "really tried to protest against the first translations, but I found complete rejection"). The later, now-preferred/canonical English translation is Fatelessness by Tim Wilkinson (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004; first UK edition The Harvill Press, London, 2005), which appeared around his 2002 Nobel Prize. So "first English" = 1992 Fateless (Northwestern); "the reading/collecting standard" = 2004 Fatelessness (Wilkinson).