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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)

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Henryk Sienkiewicz was a writer whose professional career began in 1869 and concluded with his death in 1916. He was born on May 5, 1846, and died on November 15, 1916.

He received one Nobel Prize and is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection. His body of work consists of eight items.

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Wola Okrzejska, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wola Okrzejska, Lubelskie, Poland]

Henryk Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 – November 15, 1916) also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series (With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Colonel Wolodyjowski) and especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1895–1896). In 1905 he received the most prestigious award in the world of…

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1905
“because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer”

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Instance of: human
Given name: Pius
Gender: male
Citizenship: Poland
Place of birth: Wola Okrzejska
Place of death: Vevey
Occupation: short story writer
Educated at: University of Warsaw
Languages spoken: Polish
Native language: Polish
Religion: Catholicism
Award: Knight of the Legion of Honour
Notable work: In Desert and Wilderness
Field of work: fiction
Genre: feuilleton
Movement: Positivism in Poland
Conflict: World War I
Image: Henryk Sienkiewicz ca 1885 (45871548) (cropped).jpg

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topic's main category: Category:Henryk Sienkiewicz
place of burial: St. John's Archcathedral
Commons category: Henryk Sienkiewicz
date of birth: 1846-05-05
date of death: 1916-11-15
member of: Academy of Learning
Commons Creator page: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Commons gallery: Henryk Sienkiewicz
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
start of work period: 1869-00-00
ethnic group: Poles
name in native language: Henryk Sienkiewicz
cause of death: aortic aneurysm
birth name: Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz
writing language: Polish
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influenced by: Henryk Rzewuski
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
manner of death: natural causes
end of work period: 1916-00-00

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Works in European collections

8 objects attributed to Henryk Sienkiewicz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( US: /ʃɛnˈkjeɪvɪtʃ, -jɛv-/ shen-KYAY-vitch, -⁠KYEV-itch; Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish: [ˈlitfɔs]), was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series and especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1895–1896).

Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces in the late 1860s. 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".

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