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 Ukrainian. Franko 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. His translations appeared on the stage of the Ruska Besida Theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Franko is the 516th most popular writer (up from 640th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 93rd in 2019) and the 13th 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Franko ranks 516 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich Mann, Isaac Babel, Mika Waltari, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Robert Walser, and Jostein Gaarder. After him are Tibullus, Ivan Goncharov, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ilya Ehrenburg, Michel Houellebecq, and Boris Vian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Ivan Franko ranks 15. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Emil Kraepelin, Georgi Plekhanov, and Robert Peary. After him are Émile Picard, Robert Nivelle, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Svetozar Boroević, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and L. Frank Baum. Among people deceased in 1916, Ivan Franko ranks 23. Before him are José Echegaray, Sholem Aleichem, Henry James, Umberto Boccioni, Natsume Sōseki, and Hiram Maxim. After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Charles de Foucauld, Karl Schwarzschild, Enrique Granados, Eduard Strauss, and Émile Verhaeren.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ivan Franko ranks 65 out of 1,365. Before him are Levi Eshkol (1895), Selman Waksman (1888), David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), and Isaac Babel (1894). After him are Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), and Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ivan Franko ranks 13. Before him are Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Isaac Babel (1894). After him are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), and Bruno Schulz (1892).

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