Korney Chukovsky

Known for WritingBorn 1882-03-31Died 1969-10-28St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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.Read more

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Lenora

This Is Edik

Doctor Aybolit

Wash-’em-Clean

Vanya and Crocodile

Doctor Aybolit

Wash-'em-Clean

Doctor Aybolit

Miracle-Tree

The Boldly Buzzing Fly

Aybolit-66

Confusion

Telephone

The Monster Cockroach

The Stolen Sun

A Peacock's Tail

Aibolit and Barmaley

Fedora's Sorrow

From Two to Five

Stolen Sun

Tsocotukha the Fly

Bibigon

Mukha-Tsokotukha

Confusion

Chukokkala

Limpopo

Senka the African

Wash-’em-Clean