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Korney Chukovsky

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Also known as Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky, Kornei Chukovskii, Korney Chukovskiy

Russian children's poet (1882–1969)

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Korney Chukovsky was a male author from Russia. His professional activity began in 1901, and he lived from 1882 until his death on October 28, 1969. He is associated with several literary works, including *Russian Tales for Young Children*, *Fedorin's Trouble*, *Gymnasia*, and *Stikhi i skazki*.

Records indicate that Chukovsky has five listed works in one database and three in another. His writings have been referenced by 149 other encyclopedia articles. Additionally, his name appears in a music database with a total of 7,587 plays from 508 listeners.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • Russian Tales for Young Children. Fedorin's Trouble
  • Gymnasia
  • Stikhi i skazki

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Russia
Active from
1882-03-19
Active to
1969-10-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
508
Total plays
7,587

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Encyclopedic overview

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корней Иванович Чуковский, IPA: [kɐrˈnʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈkofskʲɪj] ; 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 Tarakanische ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone"), and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favorites 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 also wrote very popular translations of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, and other authors, and was an influential literary critic and essayist.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Korney Chukovsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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