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A condensed version of the book was published in French, La Nuit and in English, Night. For the remainder of his life, Wiesel wrote and taught about peace, injustice, and the value of human dignity.
Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. A Jewish community had existed there since 1640, when it sought ...
Published first in Yiddish and then in French, the book’s sales were slow to begin; after its 1960 publication in English, the book became a phenomenon, with some 14 million copies sold to date. Much ...
The material cut out for the French edition in 1958 has provided the substance of much of Wiesel's subsequent "fiction" — so the novels are quite literally, as Wiesel says, commentary on Night.
Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and author -- but he is perhaps best known for giving a voice to the voiceless. He died Saturday at 87. After surviving the Auschwitz ...
They looked at me, not just as a lone French woman in a hospital bed, but as someone fortunate, someone truly blessed. The first day I met Professor Wiesel, I was in a wheelchair, and hated it.
Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and author -- but he is perhaps best known for giving a voice to the voiceless. He died Saturday at 87. After surviving the Auschwitz ...