Author, Politician. He was a 19th century Ukrainian Classical prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and Ethnographer. Founder of the Ukrainian Radical Party, he was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. He also was an editor of various Ukrainian periodicals and an author of seminal ethnographic, lexicographic, and pedagogical works, literary studies, historical reviews, the first textbooks in the Ukrainian language, particularly "Native Word", the schoolbook for reading. He wrote about 50 short stories, including "Wonderful Girl" (1884), "Exam" (1884), "Without Bread" (1884), "Alone, All Alone" (1885), "Olesya" (1890), "Stolen" (1891), "Bell" (1897), the novels "Sunbeam" (1890), "At the Crossroads" (1891), "In the Middle of the Dark Night" (1900), and "Under the Silent Willows" (1901). He was an editor of the four-volume Ukrainian Dictionary (1907 to 1909).
Author, Politician. He was a 19th century Ukrainian Classical prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and Ethnographer. Founder of the Ukrainian Radical Party, he was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. He also was an editor of various Ukrainian periodicals and an author of seminal ethnographic, lexicographic, and pedagogical works, literary studies, historical reviews, the first textbooks in the Ukrainian language, particularly "Native Word", the schoolbook for reading. He wrote about 50 short stories, including "Wonderful Girl" (1884), "Exam" (1884), "Without Bread" (1884), "Alone, All Alone" (1885), "Olesya" (1890), "Stolen" (1891), "Bell" (1897), the novels "Sunbeam" (1890), "At the Crossroads" (1891), "In the Middle of the Dark Night" (1900), and "Under the Silent Willows" (1901). He was an editor of the four-volume Ukrainian Dictionary (1907 to 1909).
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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