Isaac Bashevis Singer - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1978
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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1978
for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life
Citizenship
Russian EmpireRussian EmpirePolandPolandUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English, Esperanto, Polish, Yiddish
date of birth
7/14/1904
place of birth
Leoncin, Radzymin
date of death
7/24/1991
place of death
Miami, Surfside
Lived
87 years

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occupation
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • prose writer
  • autobiographer
  • journalist
  • screenwriter
  • translator
  • writer
  • children's writer
  • novelist
  • Esperantist
employer
  • Bard College
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
notable work
  • Meshugah
  • Gimpel the Fool
  • The Magician of Lublin
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