Ol'ha Kobylians'ka

Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 27 Nov 1863
Died 21 Mar 1942

Places

Born in Romania
Active in Austria; Ukraine

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Kobylians'ka's Works

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Ol'ha Kobylians'ka (1863–1942), at the turn of the twentieth century the most widely acclaimed and controversial Ukrainian woman prose writer, was born in Gura-Gumora (today Gura Humorului in Romania), the fourth of seven children of the petty official Iuliian Kobylians'kyi, a Ukrainian, and Maria Werner, who was of German and Polish background. After sojourns in the towns of Suceava and Kimpolung (today Câmpulung Moldovenesc) and the village of Dymka, with which Ol'ha retained an enduring connection, in 1891 the family settled in the provincial capital, Chernivtsi (Cernăuƫi, Czernowitz). Ol'ha Kobylians'ka augmented her four years of formal schooling with reading and discussion—in German, the language of high culture in Habsburg Bukovyna—with her university-educated elder…

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Citation: Pavlyshyn, Marko. "Ol'ha Kobylians'ka". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 May 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13587, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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