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Agnon

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Ag·non  (ägnôn), Shmuel Yosef 1888-1970.
Polish-born Israeli writer. His dramatic novels, written in Hebrew, include A Guest for the Night (1939). He shared the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature.

Agnon [ˈægnɒn]
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(Biographies / Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1888-1970) M, Israelinational of birth: Austro-Hungarian, WRITING: novelist) Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888-1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966


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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.
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