Nobel laureate
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”
Prize motivation
“for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life”
The Swedish Academy awarded Isaac Bashevis Singer the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.
Other laureates of the 1970s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).