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Borys Antonenko Davydovych

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Occupation
  
writer, translator

Nationality
  
Ukrainian


Genre
  
Role
  
Writer


Name
  
Borys Antonenko-Davydovych

Died
  
May 9, 1984, Kiev, Ukraine

Books
  
Death. Siberian Short Stories. The Overestimated Evaluations.

Awards
  
Shevchenko National Prize in Literature

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (Ukrainian: Борис Антоненко-Давидович), born Borys Davydov (Ukrainian: Борис Давидов) was a Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist. During the Great Purge he was sentenced to the death penalty, which was later replaced with ten years jail in GULAG. Antonenko-Davydovych wrote a number of prose books; he had been translating from German and Russian. One of the most famous of his works is "How do we speak" (Як ми говоримо) in which typical mistakes of Ukrainian speakers made under the influence of Russian language are considered.

References

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych Wikipedia


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