Agnon

American  

[ag-non] / ˈæg nɒn /

noun

1. Shmuel Yosef Samuel Josef Czaczkes, 1888–1970, Israeli novelist and short-story writer, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1966.

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Agnon British  

/ ˈæɡnɒn /

noun

1. Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966

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Example Sentences

He began writing stories after his first army stint, later naming Kafka, Faulkner and Mr. Agnon, the Nobel Prize-winning Israeli author, as formative influences.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022

As they rose to leave, he handed them more pages: another story, this one by the Israeli writer S. Y. Agnon.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015

He had underestimated her condition, and taken her a book of stories by Agnon.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2013

Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka.

From Time Magazine Archive

On returning to Athens, the same armament was immediately conducted under Agnon and Cleopompus, to press the siege of Potidaea, the blockade of which still continued without any visible progress.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)