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Sienkiewicz, Henryk (Adam Aleksander Pius)

Nationality: Polish. Born: Wola Okrzejska, 5 May 1846. Education: Warsaw Gymnasium, 1858-65; Polish University, Warsaw, 1866-71. Family: Married 1) Maria Szetkiewicz (died 1885), one son and one daughter; 2) Maria Wolodkowicz (marriage annulled);3) Maria Babska in 1904. Career: Journalist and freelance writer; visited the United States to search for site for a California settlement, 1876-78; co-editor, Slowo (The Word) newspaper, 1882-87; given an estate by the Polish government at Oblegorek, near Kielce, 1900. Awards: Nobel prize for literature, 1905. Died: 15 November 1916.

Publications

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Dziela [Works], edited by Julian Krzyzanowski. 60 vols., 1948-55.

Pisma wybrane [Selected Works]. 1976—.

Short Stories

Yanko the Musician and Other Stories. 1893.

Lillian Morris and Other Stories. 1894.

Sielanka, A Forest Picture, and Other Stories. 1898.

So Runs the World: Stories. 1898.

Tales. 1899.

Life and Death and Other Legends and Stories. 1904.

Western Septet: Seven Stories of the America

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Henryk Sienkiewicz: Polish Literary Lion (1846-1916)

"... that half-forgotten Pole had the answer all the time. To uplift man's heart; the same for all of us...

We all write for this one purpose." - William Faulkner

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkieiwcz was born on May 5, 1846 in Wola Okrzejska, Congress Poland. He was a journalist and travel writer before gaining fame as a novelist and short fiction writer. Sienkiewicz often focused on tales of Poland's distant past which allowed him to circumvent the attention of censors in partitioned Poland. In 1905, he was the first Polish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His "outstanding merits as an epic writer" were cited by the Swedish Academy. In his final years, he worked tirelessly on committees for the Polish community abroad. Sienkiewicz died in Vevey, Switzerland on November 15, 1916. His remains are buried in St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw. The Polish Senate voted to declare 2016 the Year of Sienkiewicz.

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Sienkiewicz Henryk
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known by the pseudonym "Litwos" 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916) was a Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his historical novels.
Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."
Many of his novels remain in print. In Poland he is best known for his "Trilogy" of historical novels – With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael – set in the 17th-centur