Who was the father of modern Ukrainian literature?
It was poet and playwright Ivan Kotlyarevsky, who took 30 years to write “Eneida”, a parody of an ancient Roman poem packed to the gills with Kozak slapstick stunts, comic skits, bawdy songs and frisky scenes.
“Eneida" was the first epic poem published in the Ukrainian vernacular (everyday language of common people) which Kotlyarevsky elevated into a literary language.
