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Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky
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Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (born Nikolai Korneychukov) was a Russian and Soviet poet, publicist, literary critic, translator and literary scholar, children's author, and journalist. Korney Chukovsky was born in Saint Petersburg. At the age of three he moved with his family to Odessa. He received primary education at a gymnasium, but his schooling was interrupted in the fifth grade. Despite the lack of systematic school education, Chukovsky was passionate about self-education: he taught himself English and French using self-study guides and books.
In 1901 he began his journalism career at "Odesskiye Novosti" (the Odessa News), and later worked as a correspondent in London. He also translated works by foreign authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.
Chukovsky gained worldwide fame for his works for children. In 1916, at the invitation of Maxim Gorky, he headed the children's publishing house "Parus", where his first collection of children's poems, "Yolka", was published. Some of his best-known children's works — "Moydodyr" and "Tarakanishche" — appeared in 1923. Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky died on October 28, 1969 in Moscow at the age of 87 from hepatitis and was buried at the Peredelkino Cemetery.
Date of birth
31 March 1882
Date of death
28 October 1969
Occupation
Poet