Agnon
Americannoun
noun
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He began writing stories after his first army stint, later naming Kafka, Faulkner and Mr. Agnon, the Nobel Prize-winning Israeli author, as formative influences.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022
His living room was small and sparse, adjoined by a sunny balcony and featuring a tidy bookcase: Spinoza, S. Y. Agnon, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Bob Dylan.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019
He had underestimated her condition, and taken her a book of stories by Agnon.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2013
It honors the solitude of Israel's most beloved and most retiring author, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, who until recently was almost unknown in the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
On returning to Athens, the same armament was immediately conducted under Agnon and Cleopompus, to press the siege of Potidaea, the blockade of which still continued without any visible progress.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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