Arnošt Lustig dies, aged 84.

Writer Arnošt Lustig has died in hospital at the age of 84. He succumbed to a five-year illness at the Vinohrady hospital in Prague on Saturday morning. One of the internationally best known Czech writers, Arnošt Lustig made his name as a journalist for numerous publications and for Czechoslovak Radio, and through a number of novels about WWII and the holocaust, which he experienced first-hand as a Jewish internee in the Terezín and Auschwitz concentration camps. Following the 1968 invasion of his homeland he moved to Israel and then to the United States, and regularly returned to the Czech Republic after the revolution. According to his publisher, he was planning to finish several books and to travel widely when he died.