Ivan Franko
personal-info
known-for
Writing
gender
Male
birthday
1856-08-27
place-of-birth
Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
also-known-as
Іван Якович Франко
І. Я. Франко
biography
Ivan Yakovych Franko 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.