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

His living room was small and sparse, adjoined by a sunny balcony and featuring a tidy bookcase: Spinoza, S. Y. Agnon, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Bob Dylan.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019

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

Israel counts Agnon a cultural hero, studies his work in its schools, and has given him a hero's place since he returned from Stockholm last December with the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature.*

From Time Magazine Archive

So frightful was the mortality that out of the four thousand hoplites under Agnon no fewer than one thousand and fifty died in the short space of forty days.

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