Editing Isaac Bashevis Singer (section)

{{Short description|Jewish American author (1903–1991)}}
{{For|the American inventor|Isaac Singer}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = Isaac Bashevis Singer
| image            = File:Isaac Bashevis Singer (Gotfryd).jpg
| caption          = Portrait {{Circa}} 1980–1990
| imagesize        = 
| awards           = {{awards|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|1978}}
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1903|11|11|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Leoncin]], [[Congress Poland]], [[Russian Empire]]
| birth_name       = Izaak Zynger
| penname          = Bashevis,<br /> Warszawski {{nowrap|(pron. Varshavsky)}},<br />D. Segal
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1991|7|24|1903|11|11|mf=y}}
| death_place      = [[Surfside, Florida]], [[United States]]
| occupation       = Novelist, short story writer
| language         = [[Yiddish]]
| citizenship      = Poland, United States
| genre            = [[prose|Fictional prose]]
| notableworks     = ''[[The Magician of Lublin (novel)|The Magician of Lublin]]''<br />''[[A Day of Pleasure]]''
| signature        = Isaac_Bashevis_Singer_Signature_from_the_Goldman_Collection.png
| native_name      = יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער
| native_name_lang = yi
}}

'''Isaac Bashevis Singer''' ({{langx|yi|יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער}}; 1903<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=November 11, 2020 |title=Is today actually Isaac Bashevis Singer's birthday? |url=https://lithub.com/is-today-actually-isaac-bashevis-singers-birthday/|access-date=November 12, 2020 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Singer |first=Isaac Bashevis |title=Who Needs Literature? |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/who-needs-literature/|access-date=November 12, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=November 11, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.bashevissinger.com/biography|access-date=November 12, 2020 |publisher=Isaac Bashevis Singer |language=en-US}}</ref> – July 24, 1991) was a [[Poland|Polish]]-born [[American Jews|Jewish-American]] novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Isaac Bashevis Singer |url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100507926|access-date=November 12, 2020 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Immigration |url=https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/pakn-treger/2020-pakn-treger-digital-translation-issue/immigration |access-date=2021-08-03 |publisher=Yiddish Book Center |language=en}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1978 Nobel Prize in Literature|1978]].<ref name=yivo/><ref name=nobellecture/> A leading figure in the [[Yiddish literature|Yiddish literary movement]], he was awarded two U.S. [[National Book Award]]s, [[National Book Award for Young People's Literature|one in Children's Literature]] for his memoir ''[[A Day of Pleasure|A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw]]'' (1970)<ref name=nba1970/> and [[National Book Award for Fiction|one in Fiction]] for his collection ''[[A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories]]'' (1974).<ref name="nba1974" />