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Ovsey Driz
Soviet poet writing in Yiddish · Russia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1908 to 1971 · aged 62
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.
Ovsey Driz is read about 16 times a day, in 6 languages.
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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.
Country
Russia
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1971 · aged 62
