1. Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska was a Ukrainian modernist writer, nationalist and feminist.
13 Facts About Olha Kobylianska
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Olha Kobylianska was the fourth child of seven in the family of Maria Werner and Yulian Yakovych Kobyliansky.
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Olha Kobylianska was mainly self-educated, receiving only four years of formal schooling in the German language.
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Olha Kobylianska wrote her first works in German, beginning in 1880.
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Olha Kobylianska fell in love with Kobrynska's brother, Dr Yevhen Ozarkevych.
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Later Olha Kobylianska met and traveled with fellow Ukrainians such as Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk, and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, who influenced her cultural and political outlook.
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Olha Kobylianska received Soviet citizenship and was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers in Ukraine; in 1941, when this territory returned to Romania, she was unable to leave Chernivtsi due to health problems.
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Olha Kobylianska's apartment was searched, and several works and manuscripts were seized and vanished without trace.
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Olha Kobylianska's writings were influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and George Sand.
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Olha Kobylianska was interested in the Ukrainian peasantry, and often wrote about the lives of these people.
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Olha Kobylianska depicted the struggle between good and evil and the mystical force of nature, predestination, magic, and the irrational in many of her stories of peasant life.
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Olha Kobylianska's works are known for their impressionistic, lyrical descriptions of nature and subtle psychological portrayals.
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Olha Kobylianska's works have been published in many editions and selections.