Mariyka Pidhiryanka
Mariyka Pidhiryanka ( uk, Марійка Підгірянка, 29 March, 1881 – May 20, 1963) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian poet, best remembered for her children's poetry though she also wrote adult work on patriotic themes. Life and work Pidhiryanka was a pen-name, meaning "from under the mountains" and she was born Mariya Omelyanivna Lenert on 29 March 1881, in the village of Bili Oslavy near the town of Nadvirna on the edge of the Carpathian forest, in what was then Austria-Hungary, Austrian Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia. The landscape inspired her poem Верховина (Uplands): Her father was a forester with a large family, who decided that he could only afford to send his sons to school. Instead, she was taught to read and write and subsequently given a literary education by her grandfather, a Greek Catholic priest. She subsequently won a scholarship to a girls' secondary school and in 1900 gained a place at a teacher training academy in L'viv, the provincial capital o ...
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