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Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, recipient of the 1924 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Kobiele Wielkie, Poland. He was one of nine children. His father was the village organist. Reymont's formal education ended after the third grade when he became a journeyman in the tailor's guild in Warsaw. Later he joined a travelling theater company.
Reymont published his first book, PIELGRZYMKA DO JASNEY GORY (PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNTAIN OF LIFE), when he was 27. He is most famous for the four-part novel, CHLOPI (THE PEASANTS), which was published from 1902 to 1909.
Wladyslaw Reymont died in Warsaw, Poland in 1925.
CHRONOLOGY
1867 He was born in Kobiele Wielkie, Poland. (May 7)
1880 He moved to Warsaw.
1894 PIELGRZYMKA DO JASNEY GORY (PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNTAIN OF LIFE)
1896 KOMEDIANTKA (THE COMEDIENNE)
1897 FERMENTY (FERMENTS); SPOTKANIE (THE MEETING)
1899 SPRAWIEDLIVIE (JUSTICE); LILI; ZIEMIA OBIECANA (THE PROMISED LAND)
1900 W JESIENNQ NOC
1902 PRZED SWITEM; He moved to Paris.
1903 Z PAMIEFTNIKA; KOMURASAKI
1907 NA KRAWEFDZI; BURZA
1909 CHLOPI (THE PEASANTS)
1910 Z ZIEMI CHELMSKIEJ; MARZYCIEL
1911 WAMPIR
1914 He returned to Poland.
1917 PRYSIEGA
1918 ROK 1794 (THE YEAR 1794)
1919 ZA FROTEM
1923 OSADZONA
1924 LEGENDA; BUNT; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1925 He died in Warsaw, Poland. (December 5)
1928 KROSNOWA I SWIAT
1934 PISMA
1954 WYBOR NOWEL
1956 DZIELA WYBRANE
1957 PISMA
1958 NOWELE WUBRANE
1968 PISMA
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