Don-Aminado
France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1888 to 1957 · aged 69
Don Aminado (1888-1957) was a Russian emigre writer. He was born Aminodav Shpolyansky into a Jewish family in Elizavetgrad in the Kherson Governorate of the old Russian empire. He studied law in Odessa and Kiev, and showed literary promise during his student years.
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About this person
In the decade of the 1910s, he published in various outlets such as Rannee Utro, Novy Satirikon and Krasnyi Smekh, dropping his Jewish name in favour of the pen name Don Aminado.
Country
France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1888 to 1957 · aged 69
