Romania

Did you know? After his liberation from Buchenwald in 1945, Elie Wiesel did not speak of what he had endured for ten years. "I made a vow: not to speak, not to touch upon the essential for at least ten years," he later explained — long enough to find the right words. Only then did he write "Night," which became an enduring testimony to the Holocaust.

Today marks 31 years since Emil Cioran (1911–1995) passed away. Romanian-French philosopher and essayist.