标题: 1966 什穆埃尔-阿格农 德国 内利-萨克斯 德国 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-26 19:28 标题: 1966 什穆埃尔-阿格农 德国 内利-萨克斯 德国 Shmuel Agnon
Facts
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
Born: 17 July 1888, Buczacz (now Buchach), Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died: 17 February 1970, Rehovot, Israel
Residence at the time of the award: Israel
Prize motivation: "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."
Language: Hebrew
Prize share: 1/2
Life
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born in Buczacz, present day Ukraine. In 1907, Agnon moved to Jaffa, Palestine. Six years later, he moved to Germany where he met his wife and lived until 1924, when the family returned to Palestine after a fire destroyed their home, destroying his manuscripts and book collection. This traumatic event was occasionally referred to in his writing.
Work
Shmuel Agnon was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. His works deal with the conflict of Jewish tradition and language and the modern world. His first works were published when he was a teenager and he immediately gained a reputation. His breakthrough novel was Hakhnasat kallah (1931) (The Bridal Canopy). After World War II, under the impact of the holocaust, Agnon wrote Ir Umeloah (1973) A City and the Fullness Thereof. The book is a collection of folktales, legends, and chronicles portraying his birth town, Buczacz.
Nelly Sachs
Facts
Nelly Sachs
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Nelly Sachs
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
Born: 10 December 1891, Berlin, Germany
Died: 12 May 1970, Stockholm, Sweden
Residence at the time of the award: Sweden
Prize motivation: "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" ."
Language: German
Prize share: 1/2
Life
Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin to a wealthy family with Jewish roots. Her father was a factory owner. Nelly suffered from poor health and so was schooled at home. She became fascinated with Selma Lagerlöf's works at a young age, and corresponded with her by letter. Selma Lagerlöf helped Nelly Sachs and her mother to flee from Nazi Germany to Sweden in 1940. Several members of her immediate family ultimately became victims of the Holocaust. The Nazi persecution left deep scars in Nelly Sachs' psyche and also influenced her writing. She continued to live in Stockholm until her death.
Work
The fate of the Jewish people casts a dark shadow over the 20th century. It is also the basis for Nelly Sachs' literary works. She borrows subjects for her poetry from the Jewish beliefs and mysticism, but her authorship is also strongly colored by Nazi persecution of the Jews, with the horrors of the death camps as its ultimate expression. Sachs' poetry combines echoes from the poetry of ancient religious texts with modernist language. Besides poetry, her writings also include a couple of plays.
