WRITER

Ivan Franko

1856 - 1916

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Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced [iˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ]; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and 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 into Ukrainian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Franko has received more than 306,745 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Ivan Franko is the 641st most popular writer (down from 625th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 75th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Ivan Franko is most famous for his work as a Ukrainian poet, journalist, and translator. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern Ukrainian literature.

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Notable Works

Moĭseĭ
1905
Zakhar Berkut
1902
Do svitla
1913
Zivʹi︠a︡le lysti︠a︡
Authors, Ukrainian
1922
Tvory
1926
Lys Mykyta
1920
Boa konstriktor
1884
Лис Микита
Українські казки, Казки, Ukrainian Fables
1920
Мойсей
Poetry, Educational psychology
1905
Zakhar Berkut
Fiction, History, Medieval Civilization
1902
Pansʹki z︠h︡arty
1893
Zivʹi︠a︡le lysti︠a︡
Criticism and interpretation
1922

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Franko ranks 641 out of 7,302. Before him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Saul Bellow, Clarice Lispector, Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Walther von der Vogelweide. After him are Irène Némirovsky, Kōbō Abe, Alexander Pope, Michael Crichton, Muriel Spark, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Ivan Franko ranks 16. Before him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Robert Peary, Emil Kraepelin, Georgi Plekhanov, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. After him are Robert Nivelle, Svetozar Boroević, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Andrey Markov, and Frank B. Kellogg. Among people deceased in 1916, Ivan Franko ranks 26. Before him are José Echegaray, Karl Schwarzschild, Elisabeth of Wied, Enrique Granados, Émile Verhaeren, and Charles Taze Russell. After him are Max Reger, Eduard Strauss, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Gaston Maspero, and Torakusu Yamaha.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ivan Franko ranks 93 out of 1,365. Before him are Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), and Oleg Blokhin (1952). After him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), and Reinhold Glière (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ivan Franko ranks 19. Before him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Isaac Babel (1894), Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), and Clarice Lispector (1920). After him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), and Juliusz Słowacki (1809).

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