Literary Birthday – 17 July – Shmuel Agnon

Shmuel Agnon was born on 17 July 1888 and died on 17 February 1970.

Shmuel Agnon Quotes

1. People’s talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
2. Sometimes small things lead to great joys.
3. I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Agnon was an Israeli writer and Nobel Prize laureate. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction as both a novelist and short-story writer. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon. Translations of his works include In the Heart of the Seas (1948; Bi-levav yamim) and Two Tales (1966; Edo ve-Enam). In 1966, he was the co-recipient, with Nelly Sachs, of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Source for image: Israeli GPO photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

by Amanda Patterson
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