Igor Nosov

Igor Petrovich Nosov is the grandson of Nikolai Nosov, a photojournalist and children’s writer.

He decided to write his own stories about Dunno, based on events from the life of his son Vanya, after Petersburg writer Vladislav Yuryevich Shebashov (Boris Karlov) published his continuation of Dunno in 1999. (Subsequently, due to a copyright conflict, Shebashov’s books were published in the form of two books with changed character names and some editorial revision. Shebashov’s books also trace continuations of other children’s books.)

In newspaper chronicles, Igor Nosov is discussed as a current children’s writer. The books “Dunno’s Island” (for example, the story of how Dunno was a photographer and ruined the negatives) and “Dunno in the Stone City” (an ecological fairy tale).

In 2007, the audiobook “Dunno’s Big Surprise” was released. Although the compiler of the track list is unambiguously Igor Nosov (1. Surprise, 2. Lilka-Kilka, 3. The Unscientific Method, 4. Bang! and Done, 5. A Useful Thing, 6. The Talking Mushroom, 7. The Striped Ghost), Nikolai Nosov is also listed on the audiobook cover as a coauthor.

Activities to protect Dunno’s copyright

He tirelessly monitors encroachments on Dunno’s name and image in publishing and advertising activities, although in the course of numerous court proceedings it was established that the first book of little people stories in Russian, “The Kingdom of the Little Ones,” by children’s writer Anna Khvolson, which included 27 stories and 182 illustrations, was published in 1889 and then republished in 1898, 1902, and 1915.

Works written by 10-year-old schoolboy Grisha Vaipan were also subjected to persecution. At the age of 8, he wrote “Dunno in the Stone City,” published in 2000 with a print run of 5,000 copies, by which time Grisha was already 10. It took two years to settle the copyright issue. It ended with the victory