Ilya Ehrenburg

Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967), born in Kiev, was arrested in his youth for revolutionary activity, then lived in Paris until the revolution of 1917, which brought him back to Russia. In 1922 he published a first novel, a satirical one. From 1936 he covered the Spanish Civil War as a correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia. He also left memoirs, in which he addressed subjects rare for a Soviet writer. He died in Moscow on 31 August 1967.

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• NovelThe ThawОттепельIlya Ehrenburg · 1954Literature