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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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Munni, for example), and of Oz's early novels, his real enthusiasm is reserved for Shmuel Yosef Agnon, a master in whose books religion and the modern world coexist in a state of continual tension.
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Its teachers, besides himself, included men who later achieved fame in various disciplines, among them the psychologist Erich Fromm, the philosopher Martin Buber, the Hebrew writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the sociologists Siegfried Kracauer and Leo Lowenthal, as well as Gershom Scholem.
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