Writing · Writer · Novel
Born Oct 5, 1909 · Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Active 1957–1996
Izrail Moiseyevich Metter was a Soviet writer of Jewish origin. He was born in Kharkiv. One of his best-known books is the novel The Fifth Corner, which he finished writing in 1967, but could not publish until 1989.