The Nobel Peace Prize 1986
Awarded on: 1986-10-14
"for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity"
Elie Wiesel
Born: 1928-09-30 in Sighet, Romania
Gender: male
Field: American writer and activist (1928–2016)
Biography
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.