// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho did Boris Gorbatov call a friend? A boris-ter.
Boris Gorbatov | |
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| Born | 2 July 1908 |
| Died | 2 January 1954 (aged 45) |
Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet novelist. Born in the Donbas region in Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.
Legacy
[edit]Gorbatov is best known for his novels Donbass and Taras' Family, both of which were translated into English, the latter also into French[1] and German.[2] The latter novel was filmed in 1945 (see The Unvanquished) and was the first film depicting The Holocaust.
Awards
[edit]He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize.
Personal life
[edit]He was married to the actress Tatiana Okunevskaya and then the actress Nina Arkhipova. He died in 1954 and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
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