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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
(; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a
Polish
-born
Jewish
author in
Yiddish
, awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym,
Izaak Baszewis
, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the
Yiddish literary movement
, writing and publishing only in
Yiddish
. He also was awarded two U.S.
National Book Awards
,
one in Children's Literature
for his memoir
A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
(1970) and
one in Fiction
for his collection,
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
(1974).
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