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Biografisk notat
Issac Bashevis Singer was born in Poland in 1904, and emigrated to the United States in 1935, shortly after his first novel, Satan in Goray, had been published in instalments. In 1943 he became a US citizen, but he continued to write almost exclusively in Yiddish, personally supervising the translation of his works into English. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Issac Bashevis Singer died in Florida in 1991.Makes most practitioners of the art of fiction look like singers with only one song
Guardian
His storytelling powers are so immense, so natural... He has more creative confidence than any living writer
Financial Times
Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality
- Ted Hughes, New York Review of Books
Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his short and humorous tales drawn from an old tradition, celebrates the dignity, mystery and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervor than any other writer... one of the very best storytellers
Newsweek