# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ovsey-driz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:54:12.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ovsey-driz"
name: "Ovsey Driz"
slug: "ovsey-driz"
description: "Ovsey Ovseyevich Driz, birth name Yehoshua \"Shike\" Driz (1908–1971) was a Soviet poet of Ukrainian Jewish origin, known for poems written in Yiddish and Russian. His Russian poems are usually translations from Yiddish. During 1960s–1980s, as Ovsey Driz, he was particularly famous in the Soviet Union for his children's poems, published in 55 children's books. Several animated films uses Driz's poems."
tagline: "Soviet poet writing in Yiddish"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-05-16"
deathDate: "1971-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.29
  momentum:             2.184032423073896
  historical:           6.152233333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3553c61c-0b65-495a-b8ad-5235b0e17601"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%94%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B7"
    title: "Аўсей Аўсеевіч Дрыз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovsey_Driz"
    title: "Ovsey Driz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96"
    title: "שיקה דריז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Дриз, Овсей Овсеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Дриз Овсій Овсійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A2_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96"
    title: "שיקע דריז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4168181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump