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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: / ʃ ɛ n ˈ k j eɪ v ɪ tʃ,-j ɛ v-/ shen-KYAY-vitch, - KYEV-itch, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish pronunciation:), was an epic Polish writer.
May 1, 2024 · Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. Sienkiewicz’s family owned a small estate but lost everything and moved to Warsaw, where Sienkiewicz studied literature, history, and philology at Warsaw University.
Henryk Sienkiewicz. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905. Born: 5 May 1846, Wola Okrzejska, Poland. Died: 15 November 1916, Vevey, Switzerland. Residence at the time of the award: Poland. Prize motivation: “because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer”. Language: Polish. Prize share: 1/1.
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."
Henryk Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916), a Nobel Prize -winning novelist and journalist, chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels that won unprecedented popularity in his native country, awakening pride in Polish culture and history following a century of political and cultural subjugation by Russia, Prussia, and Au...
Nov 15, 2015 · Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), the most outstanding and prolific Polish writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, was born in Wola Okrzejska, in the Russian part of Poland.
Henryk Sienkiewicz (pseudonym Litwos), writer and essayist, born on May 5, 1846 in Wola Okrzejska, died on November 15, 1916 in Vevey, Switzerland.
Dearly beloved in Poland, Henryk Sienkiewicz has much more to offer than just one novel. His exotic family background, his adventurous life and his other stories are all worth discovering, especially since Poland has declared 2016 the Year of Sienkiewicz.
May 14, 2018 · The Polish novelist and short-story writer Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) wrote historical novels on an epic scale. His evocations of the Middle Ages and the 17th century, as well as the early Christian era, are vivid, stirring, and often beautiful.
Henryk Sienkiewicz, the most popular Polish writer of historical fiction, was born in 1846 in Russian-partitioned Poland. He started his literary career as a journalist writing for a few periodicals under the pseudonym Litwos.
