Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (February 25 [O.S. February 13] &#; August 1 [O.S.
July 19] ) better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka, was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature. She also was a political, civil, and feminist activist. Wikipedia
Lesya Ukrainka, pseudonym of Larisa Petrovna Kosach-Kvitka (born Feb.
13 [Feb.
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25, New Style], , Novograd-Volynsky, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Novohrad-Volynskyy, Ukraine]&#;died July 19 [Aug. 1], , Surami, Georgia, Russian Empire [now in Georgia]), poet, dramatist, short-story writer, essayist, and critic who was the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature and a leading figure in its modernist movement. The daughter of intellectuals, Ukrainka was stricken with tuberculosis in and traveled widely thereafter in search of a cure.
Her early lyrical verse, influenced by Taras Shevchenko, dealt with the poet&#;s loneliness and social alienat