The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Marshak, Samuil

Marshak, Samuil (1887–1964),
Russian children's writer and translator, one of the pioneers of Soviet children's literature. Besides being one of the foremost translators of Shakespeare's sonnets into Russian, he translated English nursery rhymes and ballads, R. L. Stevenson, Kipling, Edward Lear, and A. A. Milne. He wrote a number of original versified fairy tales, often featuring animals, for instance The Tale of the Stupid Mouse (1923), The Tale of the Clever Mouse (1956), or Why the Cat was Called a Cat (1939). Many of them are based on traditional Russian folk tales, as well as Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and oriental folk and fairy tales. He has also retold in rhyme some fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

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