National Book Award in Children’s Literature in 1970, while his collection A Crown of Feathers won the U.S. His memoir, A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, won the U.S. He died 24 July 1991.Īccording to Encyclopaedia Britannica: ‘His fiction, depicting Jewish life in Poland and the United States, is remarkable for its rich blending of irony, wit, and wisdom, flavoured distinctively with the occult and the grotesque.’ His exact date of birth is unknown but it has been recorded that it was probably 11 November 1903, a date that Singer gave to his official biographer, Paul Kresh. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. In this post, we share Isaac Bashevis Singer’s three characteristics a work of fiction must possess.
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