Ivan Franko

Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 27, 1856
Day of Death: May 28, 1916 (60 years old)
Place of Birth: Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
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.