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The case was featured in the 2008 documentary, The Longest Night: Secrets of the Austrian Cellar [96] and the 2010 documentary, Monster: The Josef Fritzl Story. [97] The 2009 book The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth, by Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski, is about the case. [98]
Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case. [ 2 ] The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize [ 3 ] and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada).
Natascha Maria Kampusch (born 17 February 1988) is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.
She wrote a book about her story, Le silence des autres (The Silence of Others), with the French journalist and writer Jean-Michel Caradec'h in 2008. She admitted that it was the worldwide news of the Fritzl case that made her talk; she said she wanted to be friends with Elisabeth Fritzl because she would feel less alone and she could support her. [4]
John Glatt is a British American author of biographies and true crime books. Glatt was born in London and moved to New York in 1981. ... Press, 2009 about the Fritzl ...
The defendant in the case was referred to as the "British Fritzl", [1] "The Gaffer" (a name he called himself), [2] or "Mr. X." [3] Because of a court order to protect his daughters and their seven surviving children [4] his name has not been formally revealed.
VIENNA (Reuters) -An Austrian court said on Monday it had overturned a lower court's ruling that 88-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl be transferred to regular prison from a prison ...
April 26 – Fritzl Case: Elisabeth Fritzl and her children are released from their captivity, leading to the discovery of the crimes committed by her father Josef Fritzl. He had kept her imprisoned for 24 years in a hidden room of his basement, where he continually sexually abused and raped her, which resulted in the birth of seven children.