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Elie Wiesel

1928 - 2016

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) 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, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust. As a political activist, Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime, advocating for justice in numerous causes around the globe, including that of Soviet Jews and Ethiopian Jews, South African apartheid, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the War in Darfur, the Kurdish independence movement, the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Nicaragua's Miskito people, the Sri Lankan Tamils, and the Cambodian genocide. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elie Wiesel is the 558th most popular writer (down from 519th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Romania (down from 31st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Writer.

Elie Wiesel is most famous for his book Night, which is about his experience in the Holocaust.

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Among writers, Elie Wiesel ranks 558 out of 7,302. Before him are Camilo José Cela, Robert A. Heinlein, Alice Munro, Yunus Emre, Henry IV of Castile, and Matilde Camus. After him are Anthony Burgess, Tom Clancy, James Hilton, Salvatore Quasimodo, Beatrix Potter, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

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Among people born in 1928, Elie Wiesel ranks 34. Before him are Yves Klein, Herbert Kroemer, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, James Coburn, Domenico Modugno, and Agnès Varda. After him are Martin Landau, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Maya Angelou, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Martin Cooper, and James Ivory. Among people deceased in 2016, Elie Wiesel ranks 34. Before him are Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, S. R. Nathan, Queen Anne of Romania, Anisa Makhlouf, Frank Sinatra Jr., and Walter Scheel. After him are Jerome Bruner, Kenny Baker, Harry Kroto, Carrie Fisher, James Cronin, and Gabriele Amorth.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 34 out of 844. Before him are Stephen III of Moldavia (1433), Mircea Lucescu (1945), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Bela Lugosi (1882), Klaus Iohannis (1959), and Álmos (820). After him are Michael the Brave (1558), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Sergiu Celibidache (1912), George Enescu (1881), Gheorghe Hagi (1965), and Iannis Xenakis (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 5. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), Herta Müller (1953), and Paul Celan (1920). After him are Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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