Hanna Barvinok

Hanna Barvinok
Ганна Барвінок
Barvinok in 1866
Born
Oleksandra Mikhailovna Bilozerska

(1828-05-05)5 May 1828
Died6 July 1911(1911-07-06) (aged 83)
Motronivka
Occupation(s)Writer, folklorist
SpousePanteleimon Kulish
Relatives

Oleksandra Mikhailovna Bilozerska-Kulish (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндра Михай́лівна Білозе́рська-Кулі́ш; 5 May 1828 – 6 July 1911), who commonly wrote under the pseudonym Hanna Barvinok, was a Ukrainian writer and folklorist. Considered one of the most important writers in Ukraine, she was the first female writer of modern Ukrainian literature and became a pioneer of ethnographic realism in Ukrainian writing.

In addition to her better-known pseudonym of Hanna Barvinok, she also wrote under the name A. Nečuj-Viter. She was married to the writer Panteleimon Kulish and was the sister of Vasyl and Mykola Bilozersky.