Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg

Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigoryevich (1891–1967), Russian writer. He lived in Western Europe (1909–17 and 1921–41), as a journalist and novelist: The Love of Jeanne Ney (1924) and Out of Chaos (1933). He returned to Russia in 1941, becoming a war correspondent. He received the Stalin Prize for the novel The Fall of Paris (1942). His novel The Thaw (1954) was a major work of post-Stalin liberalization.