Elie Wiesel

Elie has authored over 60 books, including his award-winning memoir, Night, A Beggar in Jerusalem, The Testament, and The Fifth Son - to name a few.

Elie has won many awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, for his writing and for his work with charitable foundations related to the plight of Jews around the world.

After studying in Paris after the war, Elie became a journalist and writer and then ended his career as a professor of religion and philosophy at Boston University.

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania where he lived until the age of 15 when he was deported with his parents and three sisters.