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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. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are the collections of poems On the Wings of Songs (1893), Thoughts and Dreams (1899), Echos (1902), the epic poem Ancient Fairy Tale (1893), One Word (1903), plays Princess (1913), Cassandra (1903–1907), In the Catacombs (1905), and Forest Song (1911). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lesya Ukrainka is the 503rd most popular writer (down from 459th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 60th in 2019) and the 11th 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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Among writers, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 503 out of 7,302. Before her are Marie-Antoine Carême, Margaret Atwood, Natsume Sōseki, Władysław Reymont, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Saul Bellow. After her are Paul Claudel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hector Malot, Edmondo De Amicis, Thomas Paine, and Erich Kästner.

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Among people born in 1871, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 14. Before her are Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, Albert Lebrun, and Baroness Mary Vetsera. After her are Heinrich Mann, Ioannis Metaxas, Elena of Montenegro, Theodore Dreiser, Émile Borel, and Georges Rouault. Among people deceased in 1913, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 10. Before her are Alfred Russel Wallace, George I of Greece, J. P. Morgan, Harriet Tubman, Tobias Asser, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu. After her are Blanche Monnier, Alfred von Schlieffen, August Bebel, Sophia of Nassau, Philip Sclater, and Josephine Cochrane.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 62 out of 1,365. Before her are Moshe Sharett (1894), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), Georges Charpak (1924), Levi Eshkol (1895), Selman Waksman (1888), and David Oistrakh (1908). After her are Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), and Vasily Grossman (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Lesya Ukrainka ranks 11. Before her are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), and Sholem Aleichem (1859). After her are Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), and Nestor the Chronicler (1056).

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