Agnon

[ag-non]

noun

1. Shmuel Yosef Samuel Josef Czaczkes, 1888–1970, Israeli novelist and short-story writer, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1966.

Agnon

/ ˈæɡnɒn /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Agnon, an acclaimed Israeli novelist.

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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.

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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.

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The Israeli Nobel laureate Shmuel Agnon wrote of his first experience as a kid from a town in Galicia visiting a big-city café in Lviv: “Gilded chandeliers suspended from the ceiling and lamps shining from every single wall and electric lights turned on in the daytime and marble tables gleaming, and people of stately mien wearing distinguished clothes sitting on plush chairs, reading big newspapers. And above them, waiters dressed like dignitaries.”

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Certainly the café could be the foundation of emancipated life—that was why Agnon’s generation rushed there so ardently.

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