Awards & Winners

Chaim Grade

Date of Birth 04-April-1910
Place of Birth Vilnius
(Lithuania, Aukštaitija, Vilnius County)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Poet
Chaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century. Grade was raised Orthodox-leaning, and he studied in yeshiva as a teenager, but ended up secular, in part from his poetic ambitions. Losing his family in the Holocaust, he resettled in New York, and increasingly took to fiction, writing in Yiddish. Initially he was reluctant to have his work translated. He was praised by Elie Wiesel as "one of the great—if not the greatest—of living Yiddish novelists."

Awards by Chaim Grade

Check all the awards nominated and won by Chaim Grade.

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Rabbis and Wives

1978


National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : The Yeshiva

1967