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Władysław Reymont

1867 - 1925

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Władysław Stanisław Reymont (Polish: [vwaˈdɨswaf ˈrɛjmɔnt]; born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) 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 (The Peasants). Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become a master tailor, but instead worked as a gateman at a railway station and then as an actor in a troupe. His intensive travels and voyages encouraged him to publish short stories, with notions of literary realism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Władysław Reymont is the 500th most popular writer (up from 577th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Poland (up from 113th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Writer.

Władysław Reymont is most famous for his novel, "The Peasants," which is about the lives of Polish peasants in the 19th century.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Władysław Reymont ranks 500 out of 7,302. Before him are Arnold Bennett, Lysias, Traudl Junge, Marie-Antoine Carême, Margaret Atwood, and Natsume Sōseki. After him are Wolfram von Eschenbach, Saul Bellow, Lesya Ukrainka, Paul Claudel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Hector Malot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Władysław Reymont ranks 19. Before him are John Galsworthy, Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Nolde, Johannes Fibiger, Arnold Bennett, and Natsume Sōseki. After him are Maxime Weygand, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Enrique Granados, Walther Rathenau, and Stanley Baldwin. Among people deceased in 1925, Władysław Reymont ranks 14. Before him are William Jennings Bryan, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Georgy Lvov, Johann Palisa, Sergei Yesenin, and Henri Fayol. After him are Josef Breuer, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Mikhail Frunze, Camille Flammarion, Felix Klein, and Léon Bourgeois.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Władysław Reymont ranks 96 out of 1,694. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Carl Menger (1840), Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Alfred Döblin (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761). After him are Józef Gosławski (1908), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Norbert Elias (1897), and Egon Krenz (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Władysław Reymont ranks 10. Before him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), and Alfred Döblin (1878). After him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933).

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