Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nobel Prize in Literature 1978

“for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life”

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer who wrote in Yiddish. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 for his impassioned narrative art, rooted in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, that brings universal human conditions to life.