Quote by: Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.


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Author Bio


  • NameShmuel Yosef Agnon
  • DescriptionNobel laureate in Literature
  • BornAugust 8, 1887
  • DiedFebruary 17, 1970
  • CountryAustria-Hungary; Germany; Mandatory Palestine; Israel
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Bialik Prize; Israel Prize