Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: /ʃɛnˈkjeɪvɪtʃ, -jɛv-/ shen-KYAY-vitch, -KYEV-itch, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ];...
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Jeremiah Curtin (section Henryk Sienkiewicz)
collections of Irish folktales. He also translated into English Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis and other novels and stories by the Pole. Born in Detroit...
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Quo Vadis (novel) (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
A Narrative of the Time of Nero is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. The novel Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops between...
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Onufry Zagłoba (category Sienkiewicz's Trilogy)
Jan Onufry Zagłoba is a fictional character in the Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Together with other characters of The Trilogy, Zagłoba engages in various...
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entered Polish culture. For example, the novel With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz in several places describes how people were dancing w prysiudach,...
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With Fire and Sword (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
(Polish: Ogniem i mieczem) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles...
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Wola Okrzejska (section Henryk Sienkiewicz Museum)
Museum of Henryk Sienkiewicz is located in Wola Okrzejska at 21-480 Okrzeja; Phone: 025 755 9000; Tel. / fax: 025 797 6000. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916)...
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In Desert and Wilderness (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
adult novel by the Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, written in 1911. It is the author's only novel written for children/teenagers...
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Czachórski Portrait of Jadwiga Sienkiewicz Jacek Malczewski Henryk Józef Sienkiewicz Kazimierz Mordasewicz Henryk Józef Sienkiewicz Piotr Stachiewicz Skrzetuski...
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The Henryk Sienkiewicz Park in Włocławek is one of the oldest city parks in Poland. This is the third city park that was established in Włocławek. Previous...
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The Trilogy (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
(1884–1888) is a series of three novels written by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. The series follows dramatized versions of famous events in Polish...
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Agnieszka Sienkiewicz (born 1984), Polish actress Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (born 1961), Polish politician Bill Sienkiewicz (born 1958), American artist Henryk Sienkiewicz...
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the University of Warsaw Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Polish author Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1905 Henryk Cybulski (1910–1971), Polish forester...
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The Deluge (film) (category Films based on works by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
directed by Jerzy Hoffman, based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language...
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banner of Saint George and 40 men. His part in the battle was described by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Teutonic Knights. Zawisza Czarny v t e...
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Andrzej Kmicic (category Sienkiewicz's Trilogy)
Andrzej Kmicic is best known as a fictional character created by Henryk Sienkiewicz featured in the novel The Deluge. He is a typical szlachcic (Polish-Lithuanian...
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Pan Michael (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
and Sir Wołodyjowski) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1887. It is the third volume in a series known to Poles...
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based on the historical novel of the same name by Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz. 1528: The Polish (szlachta) and Lithuanian nobility's legal right...
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as A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens, Quo Vadis? by Henryk Sienkiewicz, and A Man for All Seasons (1960) by Robert Bolt, stories set in the...
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The Knights of the Cross (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
written by the Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the...
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novella) by Polish writer and winner of 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature, Henryk Sienkiewicz. It has been described as one of his most successful works in that...
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1905 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Henryk Sienkiewicz)
1905 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer."...
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Desert and Wilderness (Polish: W pustyni i w puszczy) by Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz. He is one of the earliest Polish literary depictions of a black person...
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In Desert and Wilderness (2001 film) (category Films based on works by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison...
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Russo-Polish War. The term "deluge" (potop in Polish) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Deluge (1886). During the wars the Commonwealth lost...
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Władysław Reymont, Gabriela Zapolska, and Stanisław Wyspiański. In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz received a Nobel Prize in literature for his Quo Vadis inspiring a...
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The Deluge (novel) (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series...
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Neronian era (54–68 AD). He is one of the most important characters in Henryk Sienkiewicz' historical novel Quo Vadis (1895). Leo Genn portrays him in the 1951...
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Pan Wołodyjowski (film) (category Films based on works by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
the 1887 novel Pan Wołodyjowski by Polish writer and Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz. The story is set during the Ottoman Empire's invasion of Poland in...
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Important positivist writers include Bolesław Prus (The Doll, Pharaoh), Henryk Sienkiewicz (author of numerous historical novels the most internationally acclaimed...
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