Background
Dar, David was born in 1910 in Petersburg.
Dar, David was born in 1910 in Petersburg.
Started to write in the 1920s. Husband of Vera Panova. For many decades an official Soviet writer.
In his old age, became a promoter of young, unofficial poets in Leningrad, defending Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Brodskii. Emigrated, 1977. Settled in Israel.