Korney Chukovsky
Born: 1882-03-31 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: 1969-10-28
Known For: Writing
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.
Filmography
2020
- This Is Edik as self (found footage)
1986
- Doctor Aybolit ... (Author)
1985
- Miracle-Tree ... (Book)
1984
- Doctor Aybolit ... (Author)
- Vanya and Crocodile ... (Writer)
1983
- From Two to Five as Narrator (voice)
1982
- Confusion as (voice)
1981
- Bibigon ... (Book)
1978
- Stolen Sun ... (Novel)
1976
- Tsocotukha the Fly ... (Book)
1974
- Confusion ... (Novel)
1973
- Aibolit and Barmaley ... (Book)
- Fedora's Sorrow ... (Novel)
1969
- Chukokkala as Self
1966
- Aybolit-66 ... (Novel)
1963
- The Monster Cockroach ... (Novel)
1960
- The Boldly Buzzing Fly ... (Novel)
1954
- Wash-'em-Clean ... (Novel)
1949
- Lenora ... (Story)
1946
- A Peacock's Tail ... (Book)
1944
- Telephone as Himself
1943
- The Stolen Sun ... (Book)
1941
- Mukha-Tsokotukha ... (Short Story)
1939
- Wash-’em-Clean ... (Story)
- Limpopo ... (Writer)
1938
- Doctor Aybolit ... (Book)
1927
- Senka the African ... (Book)
- Wash-’em-Clean ... (Book)