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Elie Wiesel KBE (born Eliezer Wipyler on September 30, 1928) 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 describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his internment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," noting that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel has delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. On November 30, 2006 Wiesel received an honorary knighthood in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.
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