Ariana Neumann

Ariana Neumann is a Venezuelan-American author. Born in Venezuela to a family of Czech Jewish refugees, she grew up without knowing the full story of her father's survival in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Berlin during the Holocaust. Her debut book When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains (2020) reconstructs that story through her research into his wartime life, using documents, photographs, and letters discovered after his death. When Time Stopped was a major international success, translated into numerous languages and receiving enthusiastic critical reviews. It won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2021, the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Nonfiction (UK), and was a New York Times bestseller. It has been praised for its suspenseful narrative, its moving portraiture of a family shaped by survival and silence, and its contribution to Holocaust memoir literature. Neumann is also an artist. She divides her time between the United States and Europe.