Antonio Iturbe lives in Spain, where he is both a novelist and a journalist. In researching The Librarian of Auschwitz, he interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz.
Lilit Thwaites is an award-winning literary translator. After thirty years as an academic at La Trobe University in Australia, she retired from teaching and now focuses primarily on her ongoing translation and research projects.
"An unforgettable, heartbreaking novel." --Publishers Weekly,
starred review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz"Like Markus Zusak's
The Book Thief, it's a sophisticated novel with mature themes,
delivering an emotionally searing reading experience. An important
novel that will stand with other powerful testaments from the
Holocaust era." --Booklist, starred review, on The Librarian of
Auschwitz"This novel is one that could easily be recommended or
taught alongside Elie Wiesel's Night and The Diary of Anne Frank
and a text that, once read, will never be forgotten. VERDICT A
hauntingly authentic Holocaust retelling; a must for YA
collections." --School Library Journal, starred review, on The
Librarian of Auschwitz
"Though no punches are pulled about the unimaginable atrocity of
the death camps, a life-affirming history." --Kirkus Reviews,
starred review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz
"The Librarian of Auschwitz is a heartbreaking and ultimately
inspiring work of art." --Shelf Awareness, starred review, on The
Librarian of Auschwitz
"Iturbe's remarkable account uses an immediate present tense to
immerse readers in Dita's story as she goes about what constitutes
daily life in Auschwitz, all the while risking everything to
distribute and hide the library's books." --The Horn Book, starred
review, on The Librarian of Auschwitz
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