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Henryk Sienkiewicz [1846-1916]
was a novelist, born in Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels.
His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-century Poland, but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, QUO VADIS? [1896], several times filmed.
He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905.
