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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Full Name of the recipient | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1978 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life |
Place of Birth | Leoncin, Russian Empire (now known as Poland POL) |
Date of Birth | 14 July 1904 |
Age at the time of Award | 73 years |
Place of Death | Surfside, FL, United States USA |
Date of Death | 24 July 1991 |