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Elie Wiesel

Biography

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was the author of more than 50 books, both fiction and nonfiction. He was a recipient of the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor’s Grand-Croix, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel passed away on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87 following a long illness.

Elie Wiesel

Books by Elie Wiesel

written by Elie Wiesel, translated by Anne Borchardt - Fiction
written by Elie Wiesel, translated by Frances Frenaye - Fiction
written by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel - Nonfiction

NIGHT is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.