WRITER

Lesya Ukrainka

1871 - 1913

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Lesya Ukrainka (Ukrainian: Леся Українка, romanized: Lesia Ukrainka, pronounced [ˈlɛsʲɐ ʊkrɐˈjinkɐ]; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian: Лариса Петрівна Косач; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1871 – 1 August [O.S. 19 July] 1913) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lesya Ukrainka has received more than 327,709 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Lesya Ukrainka is the 459th most popular writer (up from 525th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 57th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Lesya Ukrainka is most famous for her poetry and plays. She was born in Ukraine in 1871 and died in 1944.

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Notable Works

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The Forest Song
fiction, Drama, Fantasy
"The Forest song" - drama-fairy-tale in three acts. The play, which became a masterpiece of Ukrainian drama, was written in 1911. It was first put on stage on November 22, 1918 at the Kyiv Drama Theater. The product is one of the first prototypes of fantasy in Ukrainian literature. The original drama of the poet is published in two languages ​​in one book - in Ukrainian and in English. The rights to the English translation were provided by "Movers" by American director and translator with Ukrainian roots Virliana Tkach. For the first time in Ukraine, he published a separate book along with the original of Lesja Ukrainka. The translation was done in co-authorship with the American poet Wanda Fips, and the translators received the prestigious literary award of the National Theater Translation Fund Award. Virlina Tkach has created two adaptations of the play, which was staged in New York, receiving the highest ratings of critics. The main unique feature of the book is that it was created in partnership with the WWF in Ukraine. Together we started a long-term eco-action "House for Eurasian Lynx" «Лісова пісня» — драма-феєрія в трьох діях. П'єсу, що стала шедевром української драматургії, написано в 1911 році. Уперше поставлено її на сцені 22 листопада 1918 року в Київському драматичному театрі. Твір є одним із перших прообразів фентезі в українській літературі. Це спеціальне видання присвяченес вітовому релізу повнометражного мультфільму «Мавка. Лісова пісня», запланованому на 2020 рік. Сюжет мультфільму, що буде зрозумілий широкій аудиторії у всьому світі, водночас містить оригінальність та чарівність української аутентики й подарує глядачам зустріч з новим, досі не знаним світом, який ще не було розкрито у світовій анімації. Дорослих він зацікавить універсальністю своїх тем, а дітей — пригодами та гумором. Мультфільм створює відома українська студія Animagrad, яка входить до cкладу кінокомпанії FILM.UAGroup.
Na krylakh pisen` (On the wings of songs)
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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 459 out of 7,302Before her are Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, Héloïse, Graham Greene, and Vasily Grossman. After her are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Tibullus, Marguerite de Navarre, Saint-John Perse, and John Galsworthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 15Before her are Pietro Badoglio, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Grazia Deledda, Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, and Victor Grignard. After her are Elena of Montenegro, Ioannis Metaxas, Theodore Dreiser, Georges Rouault, František Kupka, and Giacomo Balla. Among people deceased in 1913, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 7Before her are Ferdinand de Saussure, George I of Greece, Rudolf Diesel, Alfred Russel Wallace, J. P. Morgan, and Alfred von Schlieffen. After her are Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, Sophia of Nassau, Tobias Asser, August Bebel, and Josephine Cochrane.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 60 out of 1,365Before her are Baal Shem Tov (1700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Petro Poroshenko (1965), and Vasily Grossman (1905). After her are Fanny Kaplan (1890), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 12Before her are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), and Vasily Grossman (1905). After her are Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Isaac Babel (1894), Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), and Clarice Lispector (1920).