Isaac Bashevis Singer (edit name/settings)

Backroads edited the overview of Isaac Bashevis Singer Thursday, September 6, 2012.

• Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born,Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first nameauthor born in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known.Poland. He was a leading figureleader in the Yiddish literaryliterature movement and won theis a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literaturewinner for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.writings.

Backroads edited the overview of Isaac Bashevis Singer Thursday, August 2, 2012.

• Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born, Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won 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 and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.

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• Edited Burial Location: Washington Township,New Jersey,USA

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• Awarded the Nobel prize in 1978 for "his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life".
  
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bobo kay edited the bio of Isaac Bashevis Singer Monday, July 28, 2008.