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Agnon

American  
[ag-non] / ˈæg nɒn /

noun

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


Agnon British  
/ 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

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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

Upon arriving in France all were sent to the Medical Training School near St. Agnon, one of the largest replacement camps in France.

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