Ivan Franko
Known for
Writing
Life
1856 – 1916 (aged 59)
Born in
View on IMDbNahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
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.