아이작 바셰비스 싱어

소개

아이작 바셰비스 싱어(영어: Isaac Bashevis Singer, 이디시어: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער 이츠호크 바셰비스 징게르, 1902년 11월 21일 ~ 1991년 7월 24일)는 폴란드 태생 미국의 유대계 소설가로, 이디시어 문학을 대표하는 인물 가운데 하나로 손꼽힌다.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American 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 in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded 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 (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).