Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1966
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1966
for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people
Together with: Nelly Sachs
Citizenship
Mandatory PalestineMandatory PalestineHungaryHungaryWeimar RepublicWeimar RepublicGerman EmpireGerman EmpireIsraelIsrael
Languages
Hebrew, Yiddish
date of birth
8/8/1887
place of birth
Buchach
date of death
2/17/1970
place of death
Jerusalem
Lived
82 years

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occupation
  • short story writer
  • writer
  • poet
  • novelist
notable work
  • Invité pour la Nuit
  • Those Were the Days
  • Une histoire simple
  • Tel ou tel
  • Days of Awe
  • Samuch ve-Nir'eh
  • The Bridal Canopy
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