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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Władysław Reymont has received more than 259,120 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Władysław Reymont is the 578th most popular writer (up from 692nd in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Poland (up from 136th in 2019) and the 9th 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 578 out of 7,302. Before him are Jaroslav Seifert, Laurence Sterne, Denis of Portugal, Sayat-Nova, James Baldwin, and Ninon de l'Enclos. After him are Cassiodorus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Osip Mandelstam, Enid Blyton, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Samuel Butler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Władysław Reymont ranks 18. Before him are John Galsworthy, Natsume Sōseki, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Walther Rathenau, Maxime Weygand, and Johannes Fibiger. After him are Pierre Bonnard, Enrique Granados, Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ignacy Mościcki, and Irving Fisher. Among people deceased in 1925, Władysław Reymont ranks 17. Before him are Josef Breuer, Felix Klein, Alexander Friedmann, Mikhail Frunze, Camille Flammarion, and Maria Sophie of Bavaria. After him are Léon Bourgeois, Vajiravudh, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Wong Fei-hung, and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Władysław Reymont ranks 113 out of 1,694. Before him are Hanna Reitsch (1912), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Fred Zinnemann (1907), and Jarosław Kaczyński (1949). After him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Joseph Rotblat (1908), and Władysław Sikorski (1881).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Władysław Reymont ranks 9. Before him are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), and Andrzej Sapkowski (1948). After him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), and Jan Potocki (1761).

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