Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Alexander Pius Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about seventeenth-century Poland, consisting of Ogniem i mieczem ( With Fire and Sword , 1884), Potop ( The Deluge , 1886), and Pan Wolodyjowski ( Fire in the Steppe , 1888). His most widely known book is Quo Vadis , which has been filmed several times, most notably...See more
Henryk Adam Alexander Pius Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about seventeenth-century Poland, consisting of Ogniem i mieczem ( With Fire and Sword , 1884), Potop ( The Deluge , 1886), and Pan Wolodyjowski ( Fire in the Steppe , 1888). His most widely known book is Quo Vadis , which has been filmed several times, most notably in 1951 by Mervyn LeRoy. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. See less
