Nobel Laureate, Peace Prize 1986. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University. Founder of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Founding President, Academie Universelle des Cultures (Paris). Holder of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal and French Legion of Honor.

Publications include: Author of more than 30 books including Night (1960), Dawn (1961), The Accident (1962), The Jews of Silence (1966), A Beggar in Jerusalem (1970), Against Silence (1985), From the Kingdom of Memory (1990), The Forgotten (1992), All Rivers Run to the Sea (Memoirs, Vol. 1, 1995), And the Sea Is Never Full (Memoirs, Vol. II, 1999).