Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: ????? ???? ?????; born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). He won the prize jointly with author Nelly Sachs.

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One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Palestine, and died in Israeli 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 the narrator's character in modern literature.

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