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Les Martovych is a Ukrainian writer, lawyer and public figure, Doctor of Law.

Les Martovych started writing at the gymnasium. His first short story, "The Unreader," was written in 1888 and published the following year. Martovych is a writer of his contemporary village, thematically very close to Vasyl Stefanyk and Marko Cheremshyna. He was a member of the so-called "Pokutska Trinity". His characters are peasants from the most remote villages of Western Ukraine. In his work, the writer departs from the folk canons; he often develops the deep socio-economic roots of class inequality in the countryside ("Muzhytska Smert"). Martovych depicted his fellow villagers with a deep love for them. A distinctive feature of his artistic style is a combination of the tragic and the comic, humour that sometimes turns into sharp satire.