Born into a Ladino-speaking Sephardic family in Bulgaria, he wrote in German and won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. His memoir The Tongue Set Free recalls the Sephardic world of his childhood.
Writer; Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 · 1905–1994
Born into a Ladino-speaking Sephardic family in Bulgaria, he wrote in German and won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. His memoir The Tongue Set Free recalls the Sephardic world of his childhood.
