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Hryhorii Fedorovych Kvitka-Osnovianenko was a Ukrainian novelist, playwright, newsman, literary critic and cultural and public figure. He is the founder of fiction and the genre of social comedy in classical Ukrainian literature.

The writer's works affirmed the high moral and ethical qualities of a man of the people, played a significant role in the development of the Ukrainian language. As a writer, publisher, literary critic and publicist, he defended the artistic possibilities of the Ukrainian literary language.