After the war, Elie began reading. He went on to study at the Sorbonne in France from 1948-1951 and took up journalism. François Mauriac, a French writer, encouraged Elie to write about everything he went through in the death camps. This resulted in his book, Night, which was translated into over thirty different languages. The book soon became part of a trilogy when he wrote Dawn in 1961 and Day in 1962. In 1980, he became chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Elie is the author of more than sixty books, including The Testament and A Beggar in Jerusalem. In 1986, he won a Nobel Prize and created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. His impact on the war was more long-term because he didn't become well known until we wrote books and won a Nobel Prize. Elie Wiesel isn't really well-known. I think that he has been forgotten, but his books still live on.