Stefan Żeromski was a Polish

Poland

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 novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen name

Pen name

A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

s: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.

Life

Żeromski was born at Strawczyn

Strawczyn

Strawczyn is a village in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Strawczyn. It lies approximately north-west of the regional capital Kielce....

 near Kielce. In 1892–96 he worked as a librarian

Librarian

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 — during the last two years, as the librarian — at the Polish National Museum

Polish Museum, Rapperswil

The Polish Museum, Rapperswil, was founded in Rapperswil, Switzerland, on October 23, 1870, by Polish Count Władysław Broel-Plater, at the urging of Agaton Giller, as "a refuge for [Poland's] historic memorabilia dishonored and plundered in the [occupied Polish] homeland" and for the promotion of...

 in Rapperswil

Rapperswil

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 in literature. He died in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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His novels were filmed by Walerian Borowczyk

Walerian Borowczyk

Walerian Borowczyk was a Polish film director. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. His career as a film director was mainly in France.-Biography:...

 - Dzieje grzechu (A Story of Sin), Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...

 - Popioły (The Ashes

The Ashes (film)

The Ashes is a 1965 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Daniel Olbrychski - Rafal Olbromski* Boguslaw Kierc - Krzysztof Cedro* Piotr Wysocki - Jan Gintult...

), Filip Bajon - Przedwiośnie (The Spring to Come

The Spring to Come

The Polish novel Przedwiośnie was written by the leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Żeromski, and first published in 1925, the year he died. The book has been translated and published in the U.S...

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Works

• Seedtime
  The Spring to Come
  The Polish novel Przedwiośnie was written by the leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Żeromski, and first published in 1925, the year he died. The book has been translated and published in the U.S...
  
  (Przedwiośnie, published 1925)
• The Labors of Sisyphus
  Syzyfowe prace
  "Syzyfowe prace" or "Labors of Sisyphus" is a novel by Polish author Stefan Żeromski which first appeared in the magazine Nowa Reforma in 1897. The work was published under the pseudonym "Maurycy Zych" and it was the writer's first published work....
  
  (Syzyfowe prace), about 19th- and 20th-century Tsarist efforts to Russify the Russian-occupied part of Poland.
• Ashes (Popioły, 1902–3)
• The Faithful River
  The Faithful River
  The Faithful River was a 1912 novel by Polish writer Stefan Żeromski. The novel is set in Poland during the January Uprising from 1863 to 1865 and chronicles the story of a wounded soldier who is nursed back to health by a young maiden in charge of the manor house of her absent owners...
  
  (Wierna rzeka, 1912)
• Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces (Rozdziobią nas kruki, wrony)
• Homeless People (Ludzie bezdomni
  Ludzie bezdomni
  Ludzie bezdomni is a book written by Stefan Żeromski in 1899 in Zakopane, Poland, published for the first time in 1900. It introduces readers to the life and social work of the young doctor Tomasz Judym, as well as his love of Joanna Podborska...
  
  , 1899)
• The Wages of Sin (Dzieje grzechu)
• Elegy for a Hetman (Duma o hetmanie)
• Sułkowski
• The Rose (Róża)
• The Charm of Life (Uroda życia)
• Struggles with Satan (Walka z szatanem)
• Wind from the Sea (Wiatr od morza)
• My Quail Has Fled (Uciekła mi przepióreczka)

Żeromski's works have been translated into several languages. They have been translated into Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

 by a member of the Croatian Academy, Stjepan Musulin

Stjepan Musulin

Stjepan Musulin was a Croatian linguist, comparative Slavicist, philologist, lexicographer and translator.-Life:Musulin translated from the Polish and Czech languages...

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