Tag: Ukrainian literature

Ivan Franko one of the first realists in Ukrainian literature. As Taras Shevchenko is considered the founder of Ukrainian literature of Tsarist Russia, so Ivan Franko (1856-1916) was the premier Ukrainian writer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (which ...

Lesya Ukrainka (Larisa Kosach-Kvitka, 1871-1913) left the same mark on Ukrainian literature as Jane Austen in English, and George Sand in French. The multi-talented girl came from a very educated family: her uncle was the famous Ukrainian historian M ...