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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

by Elie Wiesel - Nonfiction

Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces and questions flash through his mind. His family before and during the unspeakable Event. The gifts of marriage and children and grandchildren that followed. In his writing, in his teaching, in his public life, has he done enough for memory and the survivors? Where has his ongoing questioning of God led? Is there hope for mankind?

by Elie Wiesel - Fiction

It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg --- professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband --- has been taken hostage. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, explain that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best: telling stories --- to himself and to the men who hold his fate in their hands.

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.