Since 1956 Elie Wiesel, the best-known contemporary Holocaust writer and novelist, has produced (not counting translations) more than forty books, including testimony, novels, essays, memoirs, drama, poetry, Jewish legends, and portraits of biblical,...

The work of a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel's literature, most of which he wrote in French, is rooted in the horror of the Holocaust and devoted to the examination of the most fundamental moral issues. Although he has depicted...

Author of over forty novels, plays, collections of short stories, lectures, and philosophical texts, Elie Wiesel has been called the poet of the Holocaust. His literature, noted Jack Kolbert in Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, "most...

Noted Holocaust survivor and novelist, winner in 1986 of the Nobel Peace Prize. A leading representative of survivors of Nazi concentration camps and a champion in the fight against oppression and racism. Wiesel has spent his life describing the...

Born September 30, 1928 Sighet, Romania Writer, teacher, and human rights activist Elie Wiesel. . "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy,...

Elie Wiesel KBE (born Eliezer Wipyler on September 30, 1928) [1] is a Romanian-French-Jewish novelist, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the publisher of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a novella that...

Racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism still plague many European countries, Nobel prize laureate Elie Wiesel said Thursday in a video message to a meeting of Europe's main security body that focuses on intolerance and discrimination.Wiesel, a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, said he wanted to "warn against the...

Police on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a New Jersey man suspected of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month.The warrant for 22-year-old Eric Hunt includes charges for attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse,...

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change._ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded._ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei,...

A convicted rapist whose support from Gov. Deval Patrick became an election flash point last fall lost his eighth bid for a new trial Friday.The state Supreme Judicial Court rejected Benjamin LaGuer's claim that a state police fingerprint report that was not disclosed to the...

In the following essay, Estess provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of The Oath, viewing the novel as Wiesel's most satisfying novel to date.

In the following essay, Avni addresses the impact of and reaction to Holocaust narratives by discussing the opening section of Wiesel's Night.

In the following essay, Green considers the influence of French existentialism—particularly the work of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre—on Wiesel's fiction.

In the autobiography "Night," Elie Wiesel's experience during the Holocaust changes his view on God, mankind and himself. Through his gruesome challenges faced in the concentration camps, he because a angry man who finds peace in the end.

It is about the changes Elie Wiesel underwent spiritually and emotionally in the concentration camp.

Elie Wiesel's book Night describes the various conflicting forces that Wiesel faced during his ordeal at Auschwitz during World War II. The following overview covers how Wiesel overcame these forces.