Olha Kobylyanska

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Olha Kobylyanska (Ukrainian: Ольга Кобилянська, 27 November 1863 - 1942) was a Ukrainian modernist writer.

Together with Lesya Ukrainka she was the first to explore feminist topics in Ukrainian literature. She is also considered the most important Ukrainian writer to emerge from the region of Bukovyna. From 1891 until her death she lived in the city of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz).

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• The information page on Kobylyanska at the website of the publisher of the English translation of her 1909 novel On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs: [1]