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          In Soviet times, The True Story of a Little Ragamuffin acquired new topicality, as, in , Korney Chukovsky adapted the novel, using.

          The bulk of references to Chukovsky in The Times and TLS occurs in the s, when he also acted as a contributor; see John William Mills..

          Biography Korney Chukovsky

          Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (–) (real name, Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov) is a famous writer of children’s books, publicist, critic, and translator.

          He was born in St. Petersburg, out of wedlock to Emmanuil Levinson, and Yekaterina Korneychukova. His parents separated soon after Nikolay’s birth.

          Korney Chukovsky, later to become a well-known Soviet- period author of children's books.

        1. Author, Korney Chukovsky, whom Yuriy Aleksandrovich called in William S. Cobb (Albany: State U of New York P,. ) D.
        2. The bulk of references to Chukovsky in The Times and TLS occurs in the s, when he also acted as a contributor; see John William Mills.
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        4. Korney Chukovsky, Telefon, illustrated by Vladimir Konaschevich.

          5. Nikolay spent his childhood in Odessa. He studied English and French by himself and read Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, Thomas Mayne Reid, Alexander Dumas, Robert Stevenson and Walter Scott in original. He got his school diploma by correspondence.

          In , he started writing articles and feuilletons, interviewing writers who visited Odessa, such as Ivan Bunin, Aleksandr Kuprin and others for the weekly newspaper Odessa News. Later, he spent two years in London working as a reporter for Odessa News.  

          In he settled in St.

          Petersburg, working as a literary critic for Scale, a Symbolist magazine on literature, bibliography and criticism.