The Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
Awarded on: 1966-10-20
"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Born: 1888-07-17 in Buczacz, Austria-Hungary (now Buchach, Ukraine)
Gender: male
Field: Israeli writer and Nobel laureate
Biography
Shmuel Yosef Agnon 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 pseudonym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.