Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Bio: Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.

Born: July 17, 1888 in Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Buchach, Ukraine]