Shmuel Yosef Agnon Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (1888 – 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). He won the prize jointly with author Nelly Sachs.One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Buczacz in Austrian Galicia(currently in Ukraine), later immigrated as a Zionist to Palestine, and died in Israeli Jerusalem in 1970. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language, and the modern world, and attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (township). On a wider context, his creation also contributed to the narrator's character in modern literature.