Lydia Chukovskaya | |
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| Born | March 24, 1907 Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland (then a part of the Russian Empire) |
| Died | February 7, 1996 (aged 88) Peredelkino, Russia |
| Genre | fiction, poetry, memoirs |
| Notable works | Sofia Petrovna |
| Notable awards | Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage |
| Spouse | Matvei Bronstein |
| Relatives | Korney Chukovsky |
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.[1] 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.
- ^ Lawrence Van Gelder (9 February 1996). "Lidiya Chukovskaya, Champion of Dissidents And Chronicler of StalinistAbuses, Dies at 88". The New York Times. p. B 6. Retrieved 31 October 2021.