Nobel laureate: Shmuel Agnon
Born: 1888-07-17, Buczacz (now Buchach), Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died: 1970-02-17, Rehovot, Israel
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1966
category: literature
share: 2
motivation: "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people"