Question: Were Iain Banks and Osip Mandelstam from the same country?
Sentence (from "Osip Mandelstam"): Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam (Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м ; ] ; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Polish-Jewish poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union.
Relevant evidence: Yes