Isaac Bashevis Singer - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	21-November-1902
Place of Birth	Leoncin (Masovian Voivodeship, Nowy DwÃ³r Mazowiecki County, Gmina Leoncin, Poland)
Nationality	United States of America, Poland
Also know as	Icek Hersz Zynger, Izaak Zynger, Varshavsky, Bashevis, D. Segal, Izaak Baszewis, Icek Hersz Zynger
Profession	Writer, Author, Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.

Awards by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

1989

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories

1983

Raven Award	(Reader of the Year)

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play	Teibele and Her Demon

1978

Nobel Prize in Literature	(for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life)

1974

National Book Award for Fiction

Honored for : A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

1973

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Enemies, A Love Story

1970

National Book Award for Children's Books

Honored for : A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books	A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw

1969

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories

1968

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Fearsome Inn

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	The Fearsome Inn

1967

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)	In My Father's Court

1965

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Short Friday

1962

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	The Spinoza of Market Street

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