Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist and short-story writer, today was awarded one of the annual grants of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The awards, involving $1,500 grants this year, are given to those who distinguish themselves in various arts.
Others on the list of 18 to receive this year’s grants were Leon Edel, critic and biographer; Stanley Kunitz, poet and editor of literary reference works; Ruth Gikow, painter; and Minna Harkavy and Nathaniel Kaz, sculptors.
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