Lydia Chukovskaya
1907
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1996
country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Russia, Soviet Union
native language: Russian
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
educated at: Saint Petersburg State University
occupation: writer, poet, children's writer, prosaist, contributing editor, memoirist, literary critic, opinion journalist
Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, IPA: [ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə] ; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, she was wife of scientist Matvei Bronstein, and a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova. She was the first recipient, in 1990, of the new Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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