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Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet novelist.[1] Born in the Donbas region in the Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.
Legacy
[edit]Gorbatov is best known for his novels Donbass and Taras' Family, both of which were translated into English,[2] the latter also into French[3] and German.[4] The latter novel was filmed in 1945 (see The Unvanquished) and was the first film depicting The Holocaust.
Awards
[edit]He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize.
Personal life
[edit]He was married to the actress Tatiana Okunevskaya and then the actress Nina Arkhipova. He died in 1954 and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
References
[edit]- ^ Shimon Redlich (2013). War, the Holocaust and Stalinism. Routledge. p. 468. ISBN 978-1-134-36710-8.
- ^ Herbert A. Strauss (1993). Current Research on Anti-Semitism: Hostages of Modernization. Vol. 2–3. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1355. ISBN 978-3-110-13715-6.
- ^ Les Insoumis, Translated by A. Roudnikov, Éditions en Langues Étrangères, Moscow, 1944
- ^ Die Unbeugsamen; Die Familie des Taras, Neuer Verlag, Stockholm, 1944
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