Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. Serializing his novels in newspapers, he became immensely popular and beloved in his time and, over a century later, is still highly valued by readers of prose. In Poland he is best known for his colorful historical novels (The Trilogy) depicting the derring-do of Polish heroes in the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; abroad-for his novel, Quo Vadis, set in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero. Quo Vadis has been filmed several times, most notably the 1951 version.
The author of Quo Vadis won the 1905 Nobel Prize in literature “because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer.”
Works
His most important novels were:
The Trilogy (Trylogia), comprising:
With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884);
The Deluge (Potop, 1886);
Pan Michael aka Fire in the Steppe.Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. Serializing his novels in newspapers, he became immensely popular and beloved in his time and, over a century later, is still highly valued by readers of prose. In Poland he is best known for his colorful historical novels (The Trilogy) depicting the derring-do of Polish heroes in the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; abroad-for his novel, Quo Vadis, set in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero.
Quo Vadis has been filmed several times, most notably the 1951 version.