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The 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
Isaac Bashevis Singer
USA
b. 1904
(in Radzymin, Poland)
d. 1991
 
 
 
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