WRITER

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1888 - 1970

Photo of Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Icon of person Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון‎). In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shmuel Yosef Agnon has received more than 407,891 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the 280th most popular writer (up from 390th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Austria (up from 99th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Writer.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Hebrew writer who is most famous for his novel "The Bridal Canopy" which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Twenty-one stories
1970
In the heart of the seas
1948
Short stories
Fiction
Stories depict the culture of traditional Jewish life in Poland, the lost world of Eastern European Jewry, and the emerging society of modern Israel
1966
Days of awe
1948
The bridal canopy
Jews, East European
1937

Page views of Shmuel Yosef Agnons by language

Over the past year Shmuel Yosef Agnon has had the most page views in the with 61,599 views, followed by English (52,872), and Russian (12,219). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kazakh (310.40%), Hakka (173.11%), and Uzbek (145.39%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 280 out of 7,302. Before him are Marguerite Duras, Henrik Pontoppidan, Alphonse Daudet, Kenzaburō Ōe, Italo Calvino, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. After him are Paul Heyse, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alfonso X of Castile, William Golding, Alberto Moravia, and Paul Valéry.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 9. Before him are Fernando Pessoa, Dale Carnegie, José Raúl Capablanca, Otto Stern, Nikolai Bukharin, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. After him are Carl Schmitt, Giorgio de Chirico, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Nestor Makhno, Jean Monnet, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Among people deceased in 1970, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 16. Before him are Max Born, Sukarno, Alexander Kerensky, Mark Rothko, Nelly Sachs, and François Mauriac. After him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Édouard Daladier, Paul Celan, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Rudolf Carnap, and Semyon Timoshenko.

Others Born in 1888

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1970

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 70 out of 1,424. Before him are Peter Handke (1942), Pope Gregory V (972), Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), Josef Bican (1913), Kurt Waldheim (1918), and Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833). After him are Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Maria Carolina of Austria (1752), Alma Mahler (1879), and Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855).

Others born in Austria

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 5. Before him are Stefan Zweig (1881), Robert Musil (1880), Paula Hitler (1896), and Peter Handke (1942). After him are Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Peter Drucker (1909), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), Gustav Meyrink (1868), Georg Trakl (1887), and Hermann Broch (1886).

Austrian born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous