Samuil Marshak
PersonRussian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults. He translated the sonnets and some other of the works of William Shakespeare, English poetry, and poetry from other languages. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature".
| Born | 1887-10-22 |
| Died | 1964-07-04 |
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