Wiesel buries some autobiographical goodness in his Nobel Prize speech—but you might miss this Easter Egg if you don't know what you're looking for. Here it is:

A recollection. The time: After the war. The place: Paris. A young man struggles to readjust to life. (5, 1-4)

That young man in Paris? That's Elie himself.

But, outside of mentioning that it's "a recollection," he never flat-out says that he's giving you a snippet from his life story…because he's not trying to insert himself into the heart of his speech. Instead, he's painting a mental picture, trying to give the audience a tactile sense of what it's like to have lost so much and had to start over with so little.

Man, that Wiesel. He's selfless even when he's talking about himself.