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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1978 (11) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1902 (13) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, eastern (65) Poland (25) Leoncin (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1990s (82) 1991 (10) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Southeastern states (12) Florida (6) Miami (2) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) I (15) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) S (103) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Judaism (160) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 70 - 79 (179) 77 (14) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Miscellaneous Media and Communication Workers (5) Interpreters and Translators (5) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Asia (244) Middle East (197) Israel (197) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Letters (17) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) B (132) Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal (1) I-J (268) I (80) Itzik Manger Prize (1) M-N (333) N (205) National Book Award (0) complete name: Isaac Bashevis Singer nobel prize: literature award year: 1978 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 was awarded to Isaac Bashevis Singer "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Isaac family name: Singer pseudonym: Bashevis occupation: screenwriter occupation: writer occupation: translator occupation: Esperantist occupation: journalist occupation: children's writer occupation: novelist occupation: autobiographer work location: Bard College, Annandale Road, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, 12504-5000, United States of America description: Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish author in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded 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 (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974). pronunciation: (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1978/summary/> date birth: 1902 date death: 1991 usual name: Isaac Singer
