Shai Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon, commonly known as Shai Agnon, was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. Born in Buczacz, Galicia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Ukraine), his works deal with the conflict between traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also address the decline of the Galician shtetl. In 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people.

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