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Israeli writer, one of the greatest Hebrew novelists and short-story writers. Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 with Nelly Sachs. Resisting easy classification, Agnon's work represents a fusion of irony, religious storytelling, experimentalism, and surrealism.
Agnon explored the subjective and collective experiences of the Eastern European Jews throughout history. He used the traditional religious sources and folklore, blurring later in his works the boundaries of sacred and secular texts.
Shmuel yosef agnon biography books
His language was a blend of classic and rabbinic Hebrew and Yiddish revived in a spoken Hebrew.
"I belong to the Tribe of Levi; my forebears and I are of the minstrels that were in the Temple, and there is a tradition in my father's family that we are of the lineage of the Prophet Samuel, whose name I bear." (in the Nobel acceptance speech, 1966)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born in Buczacz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the city is part of Ukraine).
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