Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist and translator who lived in the United States. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own work into English. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He translated his works into English with the help of editors and collaborators, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he won two National Book Awards, one for his children's memoir A Day of Pleasure and one for the collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.