Korney Chukovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Korney Chukovsky

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1882

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1969

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, children's writer, essayist, prosaist, literary historian, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


Show Famous Birthdays Today, World

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Korney Chukovsky

  • Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: ?????´? ???´????? ????´?????, IPA: [k?r'n?ej ?'van?v??t? t??'kofsk??j] (listen); 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) 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 Tarakanishche ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("The Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone") and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children.
  • Lines from his poems, in particular Telefon, have become universal catch-phrases in the Russian media and everyday conversation.
  • He adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doctor Aybolit ("Dr.
  • Ow-It-Hurts"), and translated a substantial portion of the Mother Goose canon into Russian as Angliyskiye Narodnyye Pesenki ("English Folk Rhymes").
  • He was also an influential literary critic and essayist.

Read more at Wikipedia