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Władysław Reymont

1867 - 1925

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Władysław Stanisław Reymont (Polish: [vwaˈdɨswaf ˈɾɛjmɔnt], 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Władysław Reymont has received more than 239,542 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Władysław Reymont is the 693rd most popular writer (up from 874th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Poland (up from 161st in 2019) and the 13th 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 693 out of 5,755Before him are Max Frisch, Ninon de l'Enclos, Jaroslav Seifert, Hugo Ball, Pierre de Ronsard, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. After him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Neal Cassady, Berossus, Carlos Fuentes, Jacinto Benavente, and Dashiell Hammett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Władysław Reymont ranks 23Before him are Enrique Granados, Johannes Fibiger, Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Walther Rathenau, and Irving Fisher. After him are Hector Guimard, Margaret Brown, Umberto Giordano, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Sakichi Toyoda, and Joseph Maria Olbrich. Among people deceased in 1925, Władysław Reymont ranks 20Before him are Alexander Friedmann, Camille Flammarion, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Percy Fawcett, Wong Fei-hung, and George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. After him are Johann Palisa, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Vincenzo Peruggia, Félix Vallotton, and Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Władysław Reymont ranks 136 out of 1,454Before him are Adolph Menzel (1815), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Alfred Tarski (1901), Géza I of Hungary (1040), and Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767). After him are Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260), Donald Tusk (1957), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), and Isabella Jagiellon (1519).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Władysław Reymont ranks 13Before him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Osip Mandelstam (1891). After him are Christa Wolf (1929), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), B. Traven (1882), Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), and Ernst Toller (1893).