Schindler’s List is a fiction. Did you know “Schindler’s List” is just what the United States called “Schindler’s Ark,” a novel published in 1982 by Thomas Keneally? In 1980, Thomas went to a luggage store in Southern California where he subsequently met the owner, a jew named Poldek Pfefferberg. When Pfefferberg found out Keneally was a novelist he started telling him stories and took him on a tour of Poland. ✅ Keneally categorized Schindler’s Ark as a “novel” when he dedicated the book to Pfeffenberg (“A novel is a type of fiction as it is a lengthy story containing many characters and plots and subplots, it is the lengthiest of fiction types and must contain at least 40,000+ words”).✅ In 1982 Schindler's Ark won the Man Booker Prize, a literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language. ✅ In 1983 Schindler’s Ark was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. These facts are literally on Wikipedia for anyone to see. Beloud