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Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1888–1970)| Israeli novelist. Born in Buczacz, Galicia (now part of western Ukraine), he made it the setting of his most celebrated work, Tmol Shilshom/A Guest for the Night (1937) (translated 1968). He shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 with Nelly Sachs. |
| He settled in Palestine in 1909, and took the name of Agnon from his story ‘Agunot/Forsaken Wives’ (1908). Much of his writing incorporates influences from his childhood in Galicia, including the novel Hakhnasat Kala/The Bridal Canopy (1931) (translated 1937). |
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| THE AWARDS Nobel Prize for Literature (TIE) Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel, 1888-1970) Agnon was honored "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people. Munni, for example), and of Oz's early novels, his real enthusiasm is reserved for Shmuel Yosef Agnon, a master in whose books religion and the modern world coexist in a state of continual tension. Its teachers, besides himself, included men who later achieved fame in various disciplines, among them the psychologist Erich Fromm, the philosopher Martin Buber, the Hebrew writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the sociologists Siegfried Kracauer and Leo Lowenthal, as well as Gershom Scholem. |
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