Arnošt Lustig

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Arnošt Lustig
National Jewish Book Award
for Dita Saxová (1980) and The Unloved: From the Dairy of Perla S. (1986)

Arnošt Lustig (Czech pronunciation:

Holocaust
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Life and work

Lustig was born in

Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp.[2] In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 uprising
against the German occupation.

After the war, he studied

Czech culture on his 80th birthday in 2006. In 2008, Lustig became the eighth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize,[3] and the third recipient of the Karel Čapek Prize in 1996.[4]

Lustig was married to Věra Weislitzová (1927-2009), daughter of a furniture maker from Ostrava who was also imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp. Unlike her parents, she was not deported to Auschwitz. She wrote of her family's fate during the Holocaust in the collection of poems entitled "Daughter of Olga and Leo." They have two children, Josef (1951)[5] and Eva (1956).

Lustig died at age 84 in Prague on 26 February 2011[6] after suffering from Hodgkin lymphoma for five years.

His most renowned books are A Prayer For Katerina Horowitzowa (published and nominated for a National Book Award in 1974), Dita Saxová (1962, trans. 1979 as Dita Saxova), Night and Hope (1957, trans. 1985), and Lovely Green Eyes (2004).

Selected books

  • Night and Hope (1957)
  • Diamonds of the Night (1958) – contains the short story "Darkness Casts No Shadow", which was adapted into the film Diamonds of the Night (1964)
  • Street of Lost Brothers (1959)
  • Dita Saxová (1962)
  • Transport from Paradise (1962)
  • A Prayer for Kateřina Horovitzová (1964)
  • The Bitter Smell of Almonds (1968)
  • The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. (1979)
  • Waiting for Leah (1992)
  • The House of Returned Echoes (1994)
  • Lovely Green Eyes: A Novel (2000)

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ "Czech Jewish writer Arnost Lustig dies". České noviny (Czech News Agency). 2011-02-26. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  2. ^ a b c d "Arnost Lustig: writers are like clowns". Czech Radio. 31 August 2007. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
  3. ^ News.com.au : "Novelist Lustig awarded Kafka Prize"
  4. ^ : "Český PEN klub vyhlašuje po dvou letech cenu Karla Čapka" Archived January 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Josef Lustig at Česko-slovenská filmová databáze Archived March 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  7. ^ a b "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-19.

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