Ivan Franko
| Ivan Yakovych Franko Іван Якович Франко |
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| Born | Іван Якович Франко August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1856 Nahuievychi, Austrian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | May 28 [O.S. May 15] 1916 Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) |
| Pen name | Myron, Kremin, Zhyvyi |
| Occupation | poet, writer, political activist |
| Ethnicity | Ukrainian |
| Period | 1874–1916 |
| Genre | epic poetry, short story, novels, drama |
| Literary movement | Realism, Decadent movement |
| Spouse | Olha Fedorivna Khoruzhynska |
| Children | Andriy Petro Franko Taras Franko Hanna Klyuchko (Franko) |
Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced [iˈvɑn ˈjɑkovɪt͡ʃ frɐnˈkɔ]) (August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1856 – May 28 [O.S. May 15] 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante Alighieri, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller into the Ukrainian language. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous impact on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine.
Franko was born in the Ukrainian village of Nahuievychi (Ukrainian: Нагуєвичі) located then in the Austrian kronland Galicia, today part of Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. As a child he was baptized as Ivan by Father Yosyp Levytsky known as a poet and the author of the first Galician-Ruthenian Hramatyka and who was exiled to Nahuyevychi for a "sharp tongue". At home, however, Ivan was called Myron because of a local superstitious belief that naming a person by different name will dodge a death. Franko's family in Nahuyevychi was considered "well-to-do", with their own servants and 24 hectares (59 acres) of their own property.
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