1. Korney Chukovsky adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doctor Aybolit, and translated a substantial portion of the Mother Goose canon into Russian as Angliyskiye Narodnyye Pesenki.
15 Facts About Korney Chukovsky
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Korney Chukovsky 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.
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Korney Chukovsky was born in Saint Petersburg as the illegitimate son of Yekaterina Osipovna Korneychukova and of Emmanuil Solomonovich Levenson, a man from a wealthy Russian Jewish family.
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Korney Chukovsky had to obtain his secondary-school and university diplomas by correspondence.
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Back in Russia, Korney Chukovsky started translating English works and published several analyses of contemporary European authors, which brought him in touch with leading personalities of Russian literature and secured the friendship of Alexander Blok.
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Korney Chukovsky's English was not idiomatic - he had taught himself to speak it by reading and he thus pronounced English words in a distinctly odd manner, and it was difficult for people to understand him in England.
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Korney Chukovsky published several notable literary titles, including From Chekhov to Our Days, Critique stories and Faces and masks.
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Korney Chukovsky published a satirical magazine called Signal and was arrested for "insulting the ruling house", but was acquitted after six months of investigative incarceration.
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Korney Chukovsky's works were popular with emigre children as well, as Vladimir Nabokov's complimentary letter to Chukovsky attests.
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Korney Chukovsky was the only Soviet writer who officially congratulated Boris Pasternak on winning the Nobel Prize.
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Korney Chukovsky extensively wrote about the translation process and critiqued other translators.
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In 1920, Korney Chukovsky revised it, and he substantially rewrote and expanded it numerous times throughout his life without Gumilev.
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Korney Chukovsky received the Lenin Prize in 1962 for his book, Mastery of Nekrasov and an honorary doctorate from University of Oxford in 1962.
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On May 26,1903, Korney Chukovsky married Maria nee Goldfeld, daughter of Aron-Ber and Tauba.
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Korney Chukovsky's son, Nikolai Chukovsky was a writer and translator.