Czech author Arnošt Lustig (84) has died

Arnošt Lustig, a Holocaust survivor who wrote more than 50 books, died of cancer early Saturday.

Brian Kenety | 26.02.2011

ČTK

Lustig’s novel ‘Lovely Green Eyes’ was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2003

Czech author Arnošt Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust, which was a major theme of his work, has died at the age of 84. He had been fighting a malignant cancer for the past five years, a publishing house representative told the Czech news agency ČTK. Lustig had been interned at the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager. He wrote more than 50 books during his career.

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