Władysław Reymont

Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish prose and short story writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 for his four-volume "peasant epic," The Peasants. He is one of the most distinguished and important writers in the history of Polish literature.

Born: 1867-05-07 in Kobiele Wielkie, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kobiele Wielkie, Lódzkie, Poland]