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A Ukrainian literary critic, Mykhailo Kosiv worked at the Ivan Franko Museum in Lviv from 1960 to 1963 and afterwords as a teacher. In 1969 he became a supervisor at the Lviv Historical Museum. Since 1989 he has been a research fellow of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv). In 1990 he was elected deputy head of the Lviv Region Council. Since 1990 he has been a national deputy in the Ukrainian Parliament.
Kosiv is the author of essays on Ivan Franko’s writings: Ivan Franko in the History of the Polish Literary Process (1962); Science, Journalism and Fiction in the Writings of Ivan Franko (1964). He also wrote an essay on I. Svitlychnyi’s creative works: He Has Done Much (1990). Kosiv has written on the history of the Ukrainian National Republic and the West-Ukrainian National Republic, specifically on the activities of the Sich Riflemen: Resurrection Occurs Only Where Tombs Are, This is the Way Our Unity Began (1990); and an essay in defense of the Ukrainian language: Two State Languages or None (1990).
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