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Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] ⓘ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature".
Stefan Żeromski (born October 14, 1864, Strawczyn, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died November 20, 1925, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish novelist admired for the deep compassion about social problems that he expressed in naturalistic, yet lyrical, novels.
Stefan Żeromski (ur. 14 października 1864 w Strawczynie, zm. 20 listopada 1925 [1] w Warszawie) – polski prozaik, publicysta, dramaturg; pierwszy prezes polskiego PEN Clubu, prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Zakopiańskiej. Czterokrotnie nominowany do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924) [2].
Learn about the life and works of Stefan Żeromski, a writer, playwright, journalist and community activist. Explore his travels, his involvement in the Polish emigration and independence movements, and his literary legacy.
The Polish novel Przedwiośnie (a title translated alternatively as First Spring, Before the Spring, Early Spring, Springtime, or Spring To Come) was written by leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Żeromski, and first published in 1925, the year he died.
- Stefan Żeromski
- 1925
Jun 5, 2012 · … During the first quarter of the [twentieth] century, nobody, not even his enemies, questioned Żeromski’s position as the most important Polish fiction writer. He was called ‘an insatiable heart,’ ‘the conscience of Polish literature,’ and the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Remont for his ‘Peasants’ provoked some indignation among the Poles.
Stefan Żeromski, who lived and wrote in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Poland, created superb novels and yet is little known in the English-speaking world. His limited reputation can partly be attributed to the unsettled times in which he wrote.
