Ovsey Driz

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.