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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon | |
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.jpg) Agnon in 1966 | |
| Born | Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes August 8, 1887 Buczacz, Polish Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Buchach, Ukraine) |
| Died | February 17, 1970 (aged 82) Jerusalem |
| Resting place | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, short-story writer |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Genre | Novels |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 |
| Spouse | Esther Marx |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887[1] – February 17, 1970)[2] was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון). In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.
Agnon was born in Polish Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and died in Jerusalem.
His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator's role in literature. Agnon had a distinctive linguistic style, mixing modern and rabbinic Hebrew.[3]
In 1966, he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with the poet Nelly Sachs.
- ^ Laor, Dan (1998). S.Y. Agnon: A Biography (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Shocken.
- ^ Laor, Dan, Agnon's Life, Tel Aviv, Schocken, 1998 [Hebrew]; Falk, Avner, "Agnon and Psychoanalysis," Iton 77, No. 156, pp. 28–39, 1993 [Hebrew]. Also see Arnold Band, "Shai Agnon by Dan Laor", AJS Review, Vol. 35 (2011), pp. 206—208. Band says that Agnon invented the commonly cited date July 17, 1888 in the 1920s.
- ^ Norwich, John Julius (1990). Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Arts. USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 10. ISBN 978-0198691372.
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