Last name: Sienkiewicz
Name/names: Henryk
Also known as: Litwos
Born: 5 maj 1846 (Wola Okrzejska, Podlasie)
Died: 15 November 1916 (Vevey k. Lozanny, Switzerland)
Category: Literature.
Henryk Sienkiewicz – He was born 5 V 1846 r. in Wola Okrzejska in Podlasie in a impoverished landowner. He studied initially in Warsaw, in a real junior high school, later he studied at the Legal Department at the Main School, However, he did not graduate, because the school has been dissolved. In year 1872 He left the Russian University of Warsaw (there he continued his studies) and started working in the Warsaw press as a reporter and columnist.
In the years 1876-1878 he stayed in North America, and later he traveled a lot around Europe (Mainly France and Italy).
He received in the 25th anniversary of his writing in the year 1900 w darze od społeczeństwa dworek w Oblęgorku koło Kielc. W 1905 r. za powieść Where are you going? received Nobel Prize (as the first Polish writer).
Died in 1916 r. w Vevey (Switzerland). W 1924 r. His ashes were transported to the country and laid in the cathedral. John in Warsaw.
The most important works of Henryk Sienkiewicz include novels, among others: Where are you going?, Trilogy (With fire and sword, Flood, Mr. Wołodyjowski), Teutonic Knights, Połaniecki family, In the desert and in the wilderness; Towel: Humored from the portfolio, Sketches with coal, Lighter, Janko Muzykant, Za chlebem, Memory of Maripoza.