WRITER

Isaac Babel

1894 - 1940

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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Babel is the 511th most popular writer (up from 514th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Isaac Babel is most famous for his short stories, which are written in the Russian language.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Babel ranks 511 out of 7,302. Before him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hector Malot, Edmondo De Amicis, Thomas Paine, Erich Kästner, and Heinrich Mann. After him are Mika Waltari, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Robert Walser, Jostein Gaarder, Ivan Franko, and Tibullus.

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Among people born in 1894, Isaac Babel ranks 19. Before him are Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Joseph Roth, Norbert Wiener, Fritz Sauckel, Moshe Sharett, and Kim Hyong-jik. After him are Gala Dalí, Alexander Oparin, Dietrich von Choltitz, Karl Böhm, Pyotr Kapitsa, and Heinrich Lübke. Among people deceased in 1940, Isaac Babel ranks 19. Before him are Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Verner von Heidenstam, Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, John Buchan, and Peter Behrens. After him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Wladimir Köppen, Spyridon Louis, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Gerda Wegener, and Jesse Livermore.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 64 out of 1,365. Before him are Georges Charpak (1924), Levi Eshkol (1895), Selman Waksman (1888), David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Nikolai Berdyaev (1874). After him are Ivan Franko (1856), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), and Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 12. Before him are Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871). After him are Ivan Franko (1856), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), and Irène Némirovsky (1903).

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