Nobel laureate
Shmuel Agnon — Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
“for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people”
Prize motivation
“for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people”
The Swedish Academy awarded Shmuel Agnon the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people.
Other laureates of the 1960s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).