Awarded Order of the White Eagle (2018).
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Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.
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culture · Polish novelist (1867–1925) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · prose writer · author · also Władysław Reymont, Wladyslaw Reymont, Ladislas Reymont, Reymont
Born 7 May 1867 · Died 5 December 1925 · Q121180
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1925· 10 entries
Died 1925-12-05.
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1925).
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Somewhat recovered, he went to a farmers' meeting in Wierzchosławice near Kraków, where Wincenty Witos welcomed him as a member of the Polish People's Party "Piast" and praised his writing skills
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“Śmierć ma jednak swoje dobre strony – zauważył Kurowski.– Chyba tylko bezmyślność, z jaką zamiata mechanicznie potrzebnych i niepotrzebnych.”
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“Tak, ja nie mam nic, ty nie masz nic, on nie ma nic – zaśmiał się głośno.– To razem właśnie mamy tyle, w sam raz tyle, żeby założyć wielką fabrykę…”
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“Co to pan wie, a ja rozumiem.”
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“Prawda nie ma ojczyzny, przeto bywa traktowana jak uprzykrzony włóczęga!”
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“Jaki korzeń, taka nać, taka córka, jaka mać.”
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“Bieda łacniej przekuwa człowieka niźli kowal żelazo.”
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“A w pierwszą parę tańczył Sievers z panią Ożarowską.”
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1924· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his great national epic, <I>The Peasants</I>.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for The Peasants (1924).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1924).
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1922· 1 entry
And published in book form in 1924, describes a revolt by animals which take over their farm in order to introduce "equality"
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1921).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1921).
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1920· 1 entry
But still spent his winters in Warsaw or France
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1912· 1 entry
Near Sieradz, the life of the land proved not to be for him
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1902· 1 entry
Having first paid for the annulment of her earlier marriage
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1900· 2 entries
Was awarded 40,000 rubles in compensation from the Warsaw–Vienna Railway after an accident in which Reymont was severely injured
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Reymont was severely injured in a railway accident, which halted his writing career until 1904 when he published the first part of Chłopi
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1894· 1 entry
Went on an eleven-day pilgrimage to Częstochowa and turned his experience there into a report entitled "Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry" (Pilgrimage to the Luminous Mount) published in 1895, and considered his classic exam
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1892· 1 entry
Returned to Warsaw, with several unpublished short stories and just a few rubles
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1888· 1 entry
To Paris and London as a medium with a German spiritualist and then again to join a theatre troupe
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1885· 1 entry
After passing his examinations and presenting "a tail-coat, well-made", he was given the title of journeyman tailor, his only formal certificate of education
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-05-07.
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