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. The Nobel Peace Prize 1986, announced October 14, 1986. Elie Wiesel, “for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity”. Elie Wiesel: born 1928, Sighet, Romania. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).