Borys Antonenko-Davydovych

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych
Born	August 5, 1899 Zasullya, Russian Empire
Died	May 8, 1984 (age 84) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	writer, translator
Nationality	Ukrainian
Genre	prose

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.

Sources

Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: Смолоскип, 2004. (Ukrainian)
Як ми говоримо

1992 Shevchenko National Prize winners

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych Ivan Bahrianyi Viktor Hutsal Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Hryhory Kytasty Volodymyr Kolesnyk Volodymyr Drozd Mykola Zhulynsky Ihor Kalynets Stepan Kolesnyk Oleksandr Kostin Roman Lubkivsky Mykola Maksymenko Taras Melnychuk Pavlo Movchan Feodosiy Rohovyi Hryhoriy Synytsia Koshytsia Chorus Volodymyr Klymkiv

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