Marko Cheremshyna

Marko Cheremshyna (Ukrainian: Марко Черемшина) (pen name of Ivan Semaniuk), (born 13 June 1874 in Kobaky, Galicia; died 25 April 1927 in Kobaky) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background.

Cheremshyna was born into a poor peasant family in Kobaky.

He started writing short stories around 1896 and published them in newspapers and journals.

Because of his birth region, Cheremshyna is often placed together with Vasyl Stefanyk and Les Martovych in the so-called 'Pokutia triad.'

He was fluent in 13 languages, and translated literature into Ukrainian from German, Czech, Polish and Hungarian.