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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

nobel prize for literature


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Full Name
of the recipient		Shmuel Yosef Agnon
AwardNobel Prize in Literature
Year of Award1966
Share in Award50.0%
Award Shared withNelly Sachs (50.0%)
Motivation
for the Award		for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people
Place of BirthBuczacz (now Buchach), Austria-Hungary (now known as Ukraine UKR)
Date of Birth17 July 1888
Age
at the time of Award		77 years
Place of DeathRehovot, Israel ISR
Date of Death17 February 1970
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