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Sienkiewicz

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Sien·kie·wicz  (shn-kyvch, -ky-), Henryk 1846-1916.
Polish writer. Although he is most widely known for his historical novel Quo Vadis? (1896), his critical reputation rests on his works of Polish history, including With Fire and Sword (1883). Sienkiewicz won the 1905 Nobel Prize for literature.
Sienkiewicz (Polish) [ʃɛŋˈkjɛvitʃ]
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(Biographies / Sienkiewicz, Henryk (1846-1916) M, Polish, WRITING: novelist) Henryk (ˈxɛnrik). 1846-1916, Polish novelist. His best-known works are Quo Vadis? (1896), set in Nero's Rome, and the war trilogy With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1888), set in 17th-century Poland: Nobel prize for literature 1905


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