Oleksandr Oles
personal-info
known-for
Writing
gender
Male
birthday
1878-12-05
place-of-birth
Bilopillia, Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]
also-known-as
Олександр Кандиба
biography
Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.