Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Also known as

Shmuel Yosef Halevi AgnonSamuel Joseph AgnonS. Y. AgnonS. J. (Samuel Joseph) AgnonSh. AgnonS J. AgnonShai Agnonשמואל יוסף עגנוןש"י עגנוןעגנוןShmuel Yosef 1888-1970 Agnons agnon

Hebrew writer; Nobel laureate in literature. Shemu’el Yosef Agnon (formerly Czaczkes) was born in Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, then under Austro-Hungarian rule. He left his hometown permanently when he was 20, but Buczacz and Galicia had a place in his literary work for the rest of his life. “Although forty years had passed since Dr. Langsam had left his birthplace, he still talked about it all the time,” says Agnon, as if describing himself but referring to one of the characters in his novel Sipur pashut (A Simple Story; 1935). — Source: `http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Agnon_Shemuel_Yosef`

Born 1887-08-08

Died 1970-02-17