Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) 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 (). 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.

In 1966, he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with the poet Nelly Sachs. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Published: London : Gollancz, 1968
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by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Published: London : Gollancz, 1970
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by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Published: Berlin : Schocken, 1933
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by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Published: Berlin : Jüdischer Verlag, 1923
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by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Published: Zürich : Manesse, 1966
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by Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Published: Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 1964
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