![]() ![]() His books for children include A Day of Pleasure, winner of the National Book Award, and three Newbery Honor Books: Zlateh the Goat, The Fearsome Inn, and When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw Maurice Sendak was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. ![]() Beginning with his novel The Family Moskat (1950) and his first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool (1957), Singer published a steady stream of books - all of them written in Yiddish and translated into many languages - for which he was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() In 1935 he came to New York, where he worked as a journalist and translated Hebrew, German, and Polish books into Yiddish. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was born in Radzymin, Poland, and grew up in Warsaw. ![]()
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