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Eva Hoffman born Ewa Wydra on 1 July is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic. Her parents, Boris and Maria Wydra, survived the Holocaust by hiding in a forest bunker and then by being hidden by Polish and Ukrainian neighbours. In , at the age of 13, she emigrated with her parents and sister to Vancouver, British Columbia.

She received her Ph. From to , she worked as an editor and writer at The New York Times, serving as deputy editor of Arts and Leisure, and senior editor of the Book Review, and reviewing regularly herself. In , she was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Warwick. She has written and presented programmes for BBC Radio, and is the recipient of the Prix Italia for a radio work combining text and music.

She has lectured internationally on subjects of exile, historical memory, human rights :and other contemporary issues. Her:work has been translated internationally, and she was awarded an honorary DLitt from Warwick University in Fjellestad writes on Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language : is, to the best of my knowledge, the first "postmodern" autobiography written in English by an emigre from a European Communist country.