or W 0142; adys 0142; aw Stanis 0142; aw Rejment
born May 7, 1867, Kobiele Wielkie, Pol., Russian Empire
died Dec. 5, 1925, Warsaw, Pol.
Polish novelist.
He never finished his schooling and worked in his youth as a shop apprentice, a lay brother in a monastery, a railway official, and an actor. His short stories and novels are written in a naturalistic, factual style with short sentences. His best work, The Peasants (190409), is a four-volume chronicle of peasant life over the course of a year, written in peasant dialect. Translated into many languages, it won Reymont the 1924 Nobel Prize for Literature.