Erol Güney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Erol Güney

Turkish-Israeli journalist, translator and author

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1914

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-Oct-2009

Profession: translator, journalist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Erol Güney

  • Erol Güney (born Mikhael Rottenberg; 29 August 1914 – 12 October 2009) was a Turkish-Israeli journalist, translator and author.
  • He is known for translating Western classics into Turkish in the 1940s, including those of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov and Molière.
  • He was deported from Turkey in the 1950s due to an article that he wrote about the Soviet Union and emigrated to Israel in 1956, where he lived until his death in 2009.

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