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Isaac Bashevis Singer

1902 - 1991

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Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Bashevis Singer is the 228th most popular writer (down from 221st in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Poland (up from 28th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer is most famous for his short stories and novels about Jewish life in Poland and America.

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Among writers, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 228 out of 7,302. Before him are Lu Xun, Stanisław Lem, Anacreon, Annie Ernaux, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Tristan Tzara. After him are John the Evangelist, Pliny the Younger, Nelly Sachs, Ray Bradbury, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and J. D. Salinger.

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Among people born in 1902, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 11. Before him are Erik Erikson, Leni Riefenstahl, John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, Halldór Laxness, and Paul Dirac. After him are Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Fernand Braudel, Alfred Kastler, and Barbara McClintock. Among people deceased in 1991, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 6. Before him are Freddie Mercury, Olav V of Norway, Vasily Zaitsev, Edwin McMillan, and Dr. Seuss. After him are Serge Gainsbourg, Carl David Anderson, Yves Montand, Klaus Barbie, Klaus Kinski, and Gustáv Husák.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 25 out of 1,694. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Otto Stern (1888), Wernher von Braun (1912), and Janusz Korczak (1878). After him are Erich Ludendorff (1865), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Lech Kaczyński (1949), and Tadeusz Reichstein (1897).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 6. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), and Janusz Korczak (1878). After him are Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).

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