Isaac Bashevis SingerAwards:
Nobel Prize in Literature-1978Nobel Committee
in its citation stated that the prize was given for
"his impassioned narrative art
which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings
universal human conditions to life"
Born: 21/11/1902 (14/07/1904 was given by
the writer to make him look younger ) in Leoncin, Poland
Died: 24/07/1991 in Florida, USA due
to a series of Strokes.
Citizen: Polish/USA
Language: Yiddish (of Poland)
Singer was a Polish- born Jewish American Author who was a novelist,
short story writer and essayist. When he was 6 years old, the family
moved to Yiddish speaking poor Jewish quarters of Warshaw. His
childhood was pretty uneventful. In 1921, he got himself admitted to
Tachkemoni Rabbinical Seminary but neither the school nor any
profession suited him and he considered himself as a failure. In the
1930s, the Nazi threat increased and Singer emigrated to USA in 1935
to safety. His life in USA in the initial periods was equally
lackluster. Only after his marriage in 1940, he returned to prolific
writing.
Singer published at least 18 novels, 14 children's books and several
memoirs. Most of the writing was in Yiddish. Many of his works were
translated by Saul Bellow and his brother.
INFLUENCE: Antony Chekov, Maupassaunt . From Maupassant, he
learned the finely grained sense of drama. From Chekov, he developed
the technique of developing characters of enormous complexity in very
brief space.
LANDMARK:
won 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
and one
in Fiction for
his collection A
Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
*
Prior to winning the Nobel Prize, translations of dozens of his
stories were frequently published in popular magazines such as
Playboy and Esquire,
which attempted to raise their literary reputation by publishing
Singer * Singer was a prominent vegetarian during last 35 years of his
life.
Notable Works:--
Satan in Goray(/1955), -- Gimpel
the Fool(1957),- The Magician of
Lublin (/1960) ,
-- The Slave(/1962),--
In My Father's Court(/1966),
-- Enemies, A Love Story(/1972),--
A Day of Pleasure:A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories(/1974), ,
-- Shosha(/1978), -- Scum(/1991),
-- The Certificate(/1992), --
Shadows on the Hudson(/1997),
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