Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish novelist, born in 1846 and died in 1916, remembered for historical novels written while Poland was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria. Born into an impoverished Polish noble family under Russian imperial rule, he gained international fame with The Trilogy, a sequence of historical novels, and especially with Quo Vadis, serialized in 1895 and 1896, a novel of the early Christian church set under the emperor Nero. He became one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the twentieth century and received the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for what the citation called his outstanding merits as an epic writer.
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Award1905 Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the citation called his outstanding merits as an epic writer 1 Classification
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1. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLife section, opening sentence on his birth
Sienkiewicz came into the world on 5 May 1846 in Wola Okrzejska, Lublin Governorate, now a village in the central part of the eastern Polish region of Lubelskie in the Kingdom of Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
Death section
Sienkiewicz died on 15 November 1916 at the Grand Hotel du Lac in Vevey, Switzerland where he was buried on 22 November.
Lead section, summary sentence on his renown and the Nobel award
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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Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish novelist, born in 1846 and died in 1916, remembered for historical novels written while Poland was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria.
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