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Eva Wydra Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born as Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Kraków , Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in Ukraine . When she was an adolescent, her family immigrated to Canada in 1959 and her name changed to Eva, and upon graduating from high school she received a scholarship and studied at Rice University , Texas (English literature), the Yale School of Music , and Harvard University , where she received a Ph.D. in literature. In 2008, she was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Warwick . Eva leads a seminar in memoir once every two years as a part of CUNY Hunter College 's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing . She now lives in London . Radio 3. : Cite has empty unknown parameters: |began= , |episodelink= , |city= , |serieslink= , |ended= , and |transcripturl= ( help ) ; Missing or empty |series= ( help )1
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Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on July 1, 1945) is a Polish American writer and academic.
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Eva Hoffman (born Eva Wydra on July 1, 1945) is an internationally acclaimed writer and academic.
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Polish-American writer and academic Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on 1 July 1945) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic.
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writer and academic
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internationally acclaimed
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