Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), born in Wola Okrzejska into a ruined family of the lesser nobility, studied literature and history in Warsaw without completing his studies and began in the press under the pseudonym Litwos. A correspondent for the Gazeta Polska, he left in 1876 for the United States with the actress Helena Modrzejewska and friends who dreamed of an artists' colony in California. A novelist of Polish history, published in serial form, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his merits as an epic writer. He died in Vevey in 1916, where he was helping Polish victims of the war.

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• NovelQuo VadisQuo vadis?Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1896LiteraturePublic domain