Isaak Babel

1894 - 1940

genre: prose, short story, sketch story, play

country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Soviet Union

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian, French, Yiddish, Hebrew, Ukrainian

educated at: Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman

occupation: translator, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, writer, prosaist, contributing editor, war correspondent, military personnel, film director

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)