About Elie Wiesel
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, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.
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Awards & Honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize
Prix Médicis
Congressional Gold Medal
Light of Truth Award
Freedom Award
National Humanities Medal
Prix du Livre Inter
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Norman Mailer Prize
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Lucien Barrière Literary Award
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship
Medal of Liberty
Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain
doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University
Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania
Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
honorary doctorate of Haifa University
honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Bordin Prize
honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
honorary doctor of the University of Picardie Jules Verne
honorary citizen of Jerusalem
honorary doctor of the Florida Atlantic University
honorary doctor of the University of Miami
Great Immigrants Award
Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris
honorary degree from Spelman College
honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
