Olha Kobylianska

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1863. November 27.
  • Place of birth: Gura Humorului, Suceava County, Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire [now Romania]

A pioneering Ukrainian modernist writer; sister of Yuliian Kobyliansky. A self-educated and well-read woman, her first novellen were written in German, beginning in 1880. From 1891 she lived in Chernivtsi. Her travels and acquaintance with Lesia Ukrainka, Nataliia Kobrynska, Osyp Makovei, Ivan Frank...

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