Shai Agnon
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | |
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 1945
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| Born | Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes July 17, 1888 Buczacz, Austrian Poland (now Buchach, Ukraine) |
| Died | February 17, 1970 (aged 81) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Resting place | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Genre | Novels |
| Notable awards |
Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 |
| Spouse | Esther Marx |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. 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, Israel.
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 shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966.
Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes (later Agnon) was born in Buczacz (Polish spelling, pronounced Buchach) or Butschatsch (German spelling), Polish Galicia (then within the Austro-Hungarian Empire), now Buchach, Ukraine. Officially, his date of birth on the Hebrew calendar was 18 Av 5648 (July 26), but he always said his birthday was on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av, the Ninth of Av.
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