Night
by Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Eli Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which, then part of Hungary, now belongs to Romania. Fifteen years old when transported to Auschwitz, Wiesel’s mother and younger sister (Tzipproah) perished while his two older sisters (Hilda and Beatrice) survived and live today in North America and Canada. After going through two more camps, Wiesel and his father ended up in Buchenwald, where his father died from dysentery, starvation, and delirium shortly before the camp was liberated by the Red Army in April 1945.
After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and became a journalist where, during an interview in 1952, he met the renowned Nobel Laureate French writer Francois Mauriac, who persuaded him to chronicle his experiences in the death camps. This produced Night (La Nuit), the acclaimed memoir which has since been translated into more than 30 languages.
Night has been succeeded by more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction, including A Beggar in Jerusalem (Prix Médicis winner), The Testament (Prix Livre Inter winner), The Fifth Son (winner of the Grand Prize in Literature from the City of Paris), two memoirs,All Rivers Run to the Sea (which described Wiesel’s life up to the year 1969) and And the Sea is Never...
