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(1846-1916) Polish writer. Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer." Probably his most widely translated work is "Quo Vadis?" (1896), a study of Roman society in the time of the emperor Nero.
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