Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych

Ukrainian writer (1899-1984)

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1899

Place of Birth: Zasullia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 09-May-1984

Profession: writer, translator, prosaist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (Ukrainian: ????? ?????????-?????????), born Borys Davydov (Ukrainian: ????? ???????) 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 a 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" (?? ?? ????????) in which typical mistakes of Ukrainian speakers made under the influence of Russian language are considered.