Background
Erenburg, Il’ia was born on January 27, 1891 in Kiev. Son of an engineer.
publicist and translator Russian writer
Erenburg, Il’ia was born on January 27, 1891 in Kiev. Son of an engineer.
Studied at 1st Moscow High School.
Expelled from school for participating in 1905-1907 revol movement. Later arrested but released without trial. 1908 emigrated to Paris.
1908 began lit work; 1914-1917 correspondent, Russian newspapers Birzhevyye vedomosti, Utro Rossii, etc, on Franco-German Front. During 1917 Revol returned to Russia. 1917-1921 worked for newspapers in Kiev, Khar’kov, Rostov-on-Don, Tiflis and other publications supporting anti-Communist White movement.
1921 sent by Izve^ia as special correspondent to Paris but was soon deported to Belgium. Continued his assignment there, then moved to Berlin and back to Paris. Visited a number of European, Asian and American countries, all the time contributing to Soviet press.
1936-1937 USSR military correspondent in Spain. 1937-1940 in Paris, contributing to Soviet central press. 1940, with the German invasion of France, returned to USSR: 1941-1945 wrote for newspapers Pravda and Krasnaya zvezda.
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962 and 1966 convocations. Member. Foreign Affairs Commission, Soviet of Nationalities of the same convocations. Presidium member and vicc-president, World Peace Council.
Addressed international congresses in Paris, Wroclaw, Warsaw and Helsinki. From 1955 deputy chairman, Soviet Committee for Defense of Peace. Board chairman, Franco-Soviet Friendship and Cultural Relations Social.
Member, Lenin Peace Prize Commission. 1960 member, Soviet Committee for Defense of Peace delcg at World Peace Council Bureau Session, Stockholm. 1954 sharply criticized for his novelette Ottepel’ (The Thaw).
1959 attacked for articles on lit and art problems. Translated works of Francois Villon and works by old Spanish and contemporary French poets. His works have run through Soviet cd of about 8.8 million copies in 30 languages.
From 1956 member, ed collegium, journal V zashchitu mira:.
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.
Bd, member, USSR Writers’ Union from 1934.