Theodore Odrach

Theodore Odrach, born Theodore Sholomitsky, was a Ukrainian-Belarusian writer of novels, short stories and memoirs. He is generally known as the "songbird of the Pinsk Marshes." The Pinsk Marshes are mostly in southern Belarus. It is one of the largest wetlands in Europe, half the size of Germany. Odrach's love of the Marsh is depicted in much of his writing.