Marek Halter

Known for

Writing

Born

January 27, 1936 (age 90)

Birthplace

Warsaw, Poland

Biography

Marek Halter is a French writer and activist, known best for his historical novels, which have been translated into English, Polish, Hebrew, and many other languages.

He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and fled to the Soviet Union, spending the remainder of the war in Ukraine, Moscow and finally in Kokand, in Uzbekistan.

In 1945 he was chosen to travel to Moscow to present flowers to Joseph Stalin. In 1946 the family returned to Poland and in 1950, they emigrated to France, taking up residence in Paris.

In 1946, he returned to Poland with his family, but he left for Paris in 1950, when he was fourteen, and studied...