Oleksandr Oles
Birth date
December 5, 1878
Death date
July 27, 1944
Place of birth
Bilopillia, Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]
Profession
Writing
Age
65 years

Biography
Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.
Also known as
Олександр Кандиба

