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Ilya Ehrenburg

1891 - 1967

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Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (Russian: Илья Григорьевич Эренбург, pronounced [ɪˈlʲja ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvɪtɕ ɪrʲɪnˈburk] ; January 26 [O.S. January 14] 1891 – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, propagandist, journalist, and historian. Ehrenburg was among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War). His incendiary articles calling for violence against Germans during the Great Patriotic War won him a huge following among front-line Soviet soldiers, but also caused much controversy due to their perceived anti-German sentiment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilya Ehrenburg is the 520th most popular writer (down from 490th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 66th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Ilya Ehrenburg was a Russian writer, journalist, and Soviet propagandist. He is most famous for his propaganda work during World War II.

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Among writers, Ilya Ehrenburg ranks 520 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Walser, Jostein Gaarder, Ivan Franko, Tibullus, Ivan Goncharov, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. After him are Michel Houellebecq, Boris Vian, William S. Burroughs, Novatian, G. K. Chesterton, and Jacinto Benavente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Ilya Ehrenburg ranks 22. Before him are Rudolf Carnap, Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, Rafael Trujillo, Fritz Todt, and Genrikh Yagoda. After him are Osip Mandelstam, Frederick Banting, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, Frank Costello, and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1967, Ilya Ehrenburg ranks 23. Before him are Clement Attlee, Claude Rains, Ilse Koch, André Maurois, Jack Ruby, and Richard Kuhn. After him are Gordon Allport, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Rodion Malinovsky, Johannes Itten, and Casimir Funk.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ilya Ehrenburg ranks 67 out of 1,365. Before him are David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), and Lazar Kaganovich (1893). After him are Vasily Grossman (1905), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), and Rodion Malinovsky (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ilya Ehrenburg ranks 14. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), and Ivan Franko (1856). After him are Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), and Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880).

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