Ivan Franko born in1856in Ukraine was a famous Ukrainian writer, journalist, political activist, and figure in the liberation movement. At an early age, Franko began composing poetry and plays. In 1875 he entered the university in Lemberg (later Lviv State IvanFrankoUniversity), where he became a socialist and contributed to political and literary journals and to populist newspapers. Active political involvement and occasional imprisonment interrupted his studies, which were completed at the University of Vienna in 1891. In his later years, he grew critical of Marxist socialism and supported Ukrainian nationalism. He was a co-founder of the socialist and nationalist movement in western Ukraine. Besides that, he wrote dramas, lyric poetry, short stories, essays, and children’s verse, but his naturalistic novels chronicling contemporary Galician society and his long narrative poems mark the height of his literary achievement. Along with his thought-provoking poems and novels, the legacy of Franko has become intertwined in Ukrainian culture. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of such renowned figures as William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, and Goethe,... In 1915 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he died before he was able to receive it.
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