Theodore Odrach

"Theodore Odrach is that rare thing, a political novelist who is also an artist of the first rank." - Sam Munson, Times Literary Supplement

Theodore (Fedir) Odrach (1912-1964) was born in Czarist Russia (now Belarus). At the age of 9, sent to a reform school in Vilnius, he went on to study at the Stefan Batory University (now Vilnius University). With the outbreak of WWII, securing a teaching position near Pinsk, Belarus, he was deemed an "enemy of the people" by the Soviets and forced into hiding. Ultimately finding his way to freedom via the Carpathian Mountains, he lived in England for several years, then in 1953 immigrated to Canada. He authored several novels and short stories, all in the Ukrainian language, which are now being translated into English by his daughter, Erma Odrach. WAVE OF TERROR is his first novel to appear in English.

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