Lydia Chukovskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lydia Chukovskaya

Russian writer and poet

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1907

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1996

Profession: writer, poet, contributing editor, literary critic, children's writer, memoirist, prosaist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: ??´??? ?????´???? ????´?????, IPA: ['l?id??j? k?r'n?ej?vn? t??'kofsk?j?] (listen); 24 March [O.S.
11 March] 1907 – February 8, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident.
Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, 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.