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.
Writers born in the 1900s 6
About this person
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.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1971 · aged 62
Written about in
6 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.