Misha Defonseca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Misha Defonseca

Belgian writer

Date of Birth: 12-May-1937

Place of Birth: Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States, Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Misha Defonseca (born Monique de Wael; 12 May 1937 in Etterbeek) is a Belgian-born writer and the author of a fictitious Holocaust memoir titled Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, first published in 1997 and at that time professed to be a true memoir.
It became an instant success in Europe and was translated into 18 languages.
The French version of the book was a derivative work based on the original with the title Survivre avec les loups that was published in 1997 by the Éditions Robert Laffont; this second version was adapted into the French film Survivre avec les loups (Surviving with Wolves). On 29 February 2008, the author as well as her lawyers admitted that the bestselling book was fictional, despite it having been presented as autobiographical. In 2014 a court ordered Defonseca to repay her publisher $22 million.