Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: 袉胁邪薪 携泻芯胁懈褔 肖褉邪薪泻芯, pronounced; August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1856 鈥� May 28 [O.S. May 15] 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.