Borys Antonenko-Davydovych

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (Ukrainian: Борис Антоненко-Давидович), born Borys Davydov (Ukrainian: Борис Давидов), 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" (Як ми говоримо) in which typical mistakes of Ukrainian speakers made under the influence of Russian language are considered.

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych
photo, 1928
Born	August 4 [O.S. July 23] 1899 Zasullya, Romensky Uyezd, Russian Empire
Died	May 8, 1984 (age 84) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	writer, translator
Language	Ukrainian
Nationality	Ukrainian
Genre	prose
Notable awards	Shevchenko National Prize, 1992[1]