Shmuel Yosef Agnon, (17 July 1888 – 17 February 1970) also known as Shai Agnon, was an Israeli writer. He won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Life and Career
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born on 17 July 1888, in Buchach, Ukraine, and died on 17 February 1970, in Jerusalem, Israel.
In the beginning (1903–06), he wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. After settling in Palestine in 1907, he took the name Agnon and wrote his dramatic, visionary, highly polished stories in Hebrew.
He wrote his first major book in 1922, Hakhnasat Kalah (The Bridal Canopy), about the golden age of Hassidism, and his first apocalyptic novel in 1939, Oreach Nata Lalun (A Guest for the Night), about Galicia in the wake of the First World War.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes
Here are quotes of Shmuel Yosef Agnon:
On everything you need to hear other people’s opinions. It’s the only way to do things. You ask a friend’s advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.
A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.
People’s talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.