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Korney Chukovsky
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Chukovsky's poems Tarakanische, Krokodil ("Crocodile"), Telefon, and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favorites with many generations of Russophone children. Lines fro…
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culture · Russian children's poet (1882–1969) · poet · translator · essayist · children's writer · journalist · literary critic · literary historian · writer · prose writer · opinion journalist · also Korney Chukovsky, Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky, Kornei Chukovskii, Korney Chukovskiy, Chukovsky
Born 19 March 1882 · Died 28 October 1969 · Q347685
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1969· 2 entries
Died 1969-10-28.
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From viral hepatitis in Kuntsevo Hospital
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1962· 1 entry
For his book, Mastery of Nekrasov and an honorary doctorate from University of Oxford in 1962
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1930· 1 entry
(re-titling it Iskusstvo perevoda [English: The Art of Translation]), 1936, 1941 (re-titling it Vysokoe iskusstvo [English: A High Art]), 1964, and his final revision was published in his Collected Works in 1965–1967
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1920· 1 entry
Chukovsky revised it, and he substantially rewrote and expanded it numerous times throughout his life without Gumilev
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1919· 1 entry
Co-wrote with Nikolai Gumilev a brochure called Printsipy khudozhestvennogo perevoda (English: Principles of Artistic Translation)
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1904· 1 entry
His son, Nikolai Chukovsky (1904–1965) was a writer and translator.
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1903· 1 entry
Chukovsky married Maria (Maria Borisovna Chukovskaya) née Goldfeld, daughter of Aron-Ber and Tauba
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-03-19.
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