1888 - 1970
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. 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 316,843 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the 320th most popular writer (down from 288th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 31st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian 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.
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Among writers, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 320 out of 5,794. Before him are François Mauriac, Simonides of Ceos, Roger Martin du Gard, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Wilhelm Grimm, and Anna Komnene. After him are Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Donne, Gregory of Tours, Luigi Pirandello, J. M. Barrie, and Pär Lagerkvist.
1885 - 1970
HPI: 76.74
Rank: 314
556 BC - 468 BC
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 315
1881 - 1958
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 316
1934 - 2018
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 317
1786 - 1859
HPI: 76.70
Rank: 318
1083 - 1153
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 319
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 320
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 321
1572 - 1631
HPI: 76.62
Rank: 322
538 - 593
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 323
1867 - 1936
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 324
1860 - 1937
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 325
1891 - 1974
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 326
Among people born in 1888, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 12. Before him are John Logie Baird, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, and José Raúl Capablanca. After him are Nestor Makhno, Raymond Chandler, Jean Monnet, C. V. Raman, T. S. Eliot, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Among people deceased in 1970, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 16. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Max Born, Hjalmar Schacht, Alexander Kerensky, Mark Rothko, and François Mauriac. After him are Napoleon Hill, Édouard Daladier, Paul Celan, C. V. Raman, Rudolf Carnap, and Semyon Timoshenko.
1888 - 1946
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 6
1888 - 1985
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 7
1888 - 1938
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 8
1888 - 1978
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 9
1888 - 1969
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 10
1888 - 1942
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 11
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 12
1888 - 1934
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 13
1888 - 1959
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 14
1888 - 1979
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 15
1888 - 1970
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 16
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 17
1888 - 1964
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 18
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 10
1882 - 1970
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 11
1877 - 1970
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 12
1881 - 1970
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 13
1903 - 1970
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 14
1885 - 1970
HPI: 76.74
Rank: 15
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 16
1883 - 1970
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 17
1884 - 1970
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 18
1920 - 1970
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 19
1888 - 1970
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 20
1891 - 1970
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 21
1895 - 1970
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 22
Among people born in Ukraine, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 30 out of 913. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Ivan Aivazovsky (1817), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), and Vaslav Nijinsky (1889). After him are Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Stepan Bandera (1909), Nestor Makhno (1888), Igor Sikorsky (1889), Sholem Aleichem (1859), and George Gamow (1904).
1836 - 1895
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 24
1817 - 1900
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 25
1898 - 1976
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 26
1881 - 1973
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 27
1677 - 1766
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 28
1889 - 1950
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 29
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 30
1903 - 1989
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 31
1909 - 1959
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 32
1888 - 1934
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 33
1889 - 1972
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 34
1859 - 1916
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 35
1904 - 1968
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 36
Among writers born in Ukraine, Shmuel Yosef Agnon ranks 8. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836). After him are Sholem Aleichem (1859), Joseph Roth (1894), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Isaac Babel (1894), and Anton Makarenko (1888).
1891 - 1940
HPI: 80.45
Rank: 2
1857 - 1924
HPI: 79.99
Rank: 3
1948 - Present
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 4
1889 - 1966
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 5
1814 - 1861
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 6
1836 - 1895
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1888 - 1970
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 8
1859 - 1916
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 9
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 10
1891 - 1967
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 11
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 12
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 13
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 14