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When Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer died in 1991 aged 87, he was already a canonical American writer. Yet Singer never wrote in English, although he did edit his stories in their English translations. His fame is as a Yiddish writer who kept the language, and the lost world it sprang from, alive in the world of the imagination. For writer Adam Thirlwell, Singer’s fascination is as a master storyteller with a strikingly modernist approach.
Extreme, ironic and unsentimental, with a keen awareness of the clash between tradition and modernity, Singer brings universal human conditions to life in a very contemporary manner.
Adam Thirlwell was included in Granta’s 2003 list of Best Young British Novelists under 40. His first novel Politics (2004) has been translated into 21 languages.
David Schneider is an actor, comedian and writer.
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