Known For
Writing
Born
Mar 31, 1882
Died
Oct 28, 1969
Place of Birth
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Credits
28 titles
Korney Chukovsky
Biography
Korney I. Chukovsky [Nikolai V. Korneichukov] (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 Doktor 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.
Known For
Filmography
This Is Edik
self (found footage)
Doctor Aybolit
Author
Miracle-Tree
Book
Vanya and Crocodile
Writer
Doctor Aybolit
Author
From Two to Five
Narrator (voice)
Confusion
(voice)
Bibigon
Book
Stolen Sun
Novel
Tsocotukha the Fly
Book
Confusion
Novel
Fedora's Sorrow
Novel
Aibolit and Barmaley
Book
Chukokkala
Self
Aybolit-66
Novel
The Monster Cockroach
Novel
The Boldly Buzzing Fly
Novel
Wash-'em-Clean
Novel
Lenora
Story
A Peacock's Tail
Book
Telephone
Himself
The Stolen Sun
Book
Mukha-Tsokotukha
Short Story
Wash-’em-Clean
Story
Limpopo
Writer
Doctor Aybolit
Book
Senka the African
Book
Wash-’em-Clean
Book