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Ivan Yakovlevych Franko was an outstanding Ukrainian poet, prose writer, playwright, literary critic, publicist, translator, scholar, public and political figure.

During his more than 40 years of creative activity, Franko worked extremely fruitfully as an original writer (poet, prose writer, playwright) and translator, literary critic and publicist, multifaceted scholar - literary, linguistic, translation and art critic, ethnologist and folklorist, historian, sociologist, political scientist, economist, philosopher. His creative work, written in Ukrainian (most of his texts), Polish, German, Russian, Bulgarian, and Czech, is estimated to include several thousand works in total, comprising more than 100 volumes. In total, over 220 books and brochures were published during Franko's lifetime, including more than 60 collections of his original and translated works of various genres. He was one of the first professional Ukrainian writers, that is, he earned his living from literary work.