Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 27, 1856(59)
Day of Death
May 28, 1916
Place of Birth
Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
Also Known As
Іван Якович ФранкоІ. Я. Франко
Ivan Franko
Writing
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.