Poland
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (Kobiele Wielkie, May 7, 1867 – December 5, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, writer and novelist, one of the main representatives of realism with elements of naturalism in fiction of Young Polish. And the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
Reymont's baptism certificate lists his original surname as Stanisław Władysław Rejment. The change of name from "Rejment" to "Reymont" was made by the author himself during his publishing debut, as it was supposed to protect him, in the Russian part of Poland, from any potential trouble for having already published in Galicia a work not allowed under the Tsar's censorship. Kazimierz Wyka, an enthusiast of Reymont's work, believes that the correction could also have been meant to remove any association with the word rejmentować, which in some local Polish dialects means "to swear".
Biography of Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Born Władysław Stanisław Reymont
May 7, 1867
Kobiele Wielkie, Petrokov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died December 5, 1925 (aged 58)
Warsaw, Poland
Nationality Polish
Genres Realism
Literary movement Young Poland
Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature1924
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