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Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky

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Also known as: Mikhaylo Mikhaylovich Kotsiubinsky
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Kotsyubinsky also spelled:
Kotsiubinsky
Born:
Sept. 5 [Sept. 17, New Style], 1864, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Died:
April 12 [April 25], 1913, Chernigov, Ukraine (aged 48)
Notable Works:
“Fata morgana”
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Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky (born Sept. 5 [Sept. 17, New Style], 1864, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died April 12 [April 25], 1913, Chernigov, Ukraine) was a novelist and short-story writer whose work was one of the highest achievements of Ukrainian modernism. Kotsyubinsky graduated from Shargorod Seminary in 1880. He did not begin to publish his writing until 10 years later, working in the interim as a teacher and statistician. Kotsyubinsky’s philosophical and stylistic evolution from populist realism to impressionism was the result of western European influences and reflected his concern that Ukrainian writing be integrated into the European literary mainstream. His greatest novel, ...(100 of 147 words)

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