Isaak Babel
Russissian writer and playwright
Died when: 45 years 198 days (546 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator.
He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.
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