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Henryk Sienkiewicz - Polish Writer and Nobel Laureate

Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish writer and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in , had the honorable yet challenging task of establishing himself as a national literary classic without a national independence. He accomplished this task brilliantly. Despite his humble origins, though being from a noble family, and his financial struggles in his early life, Sienkiewicz entered the world of literature when he was over thirty years old. Before that, he had gained valuable experience in journalism, having spent two years traveling in America, which he vividly and critically described in a series of essays. The American way of lif