Arnošt Lustig

Arnošt Lustig was born on 21 December 1926 in Prague, into a family of small Jewish shopkeepers. Deported in 1942 to Terezín, then to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he escaped from a death transport in 1945. A journalist and screenwriter, he left the country after the invasion of 1968 and taught at the American University in Washington, then settled in Prague again, where he received the Franz Kafka Prize in 2008. He died in Prague on 26 February 2011.

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• NovelDita SaxovaDita SaxováArnošt Lustig · 1962Literature