Isaac Bashevis Singer

Who is this?

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he 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).

Career

1. 1903
   Born
2. 1970
   Won National Book Award
3. 1973
   Won Itzik Manger Prize
4. 1978
   Won Nobel Prize in Literature
5. 1981
   Won Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal
6. 1991
   Passed away
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
8. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9. Won honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University
10. Notable work: The Magician of Lublin
11. Notable work: Gimpel the Fool

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Leoncin
• •Citizenship: United States, Poland
• •Known as: translator, novelist, Esperantist, autobiographer
• •Spouse: Alma Wassermann