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Stefan Żeromski | |
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Born | Strawczyn, Kingdom of Poland | 14 October 1864
Died | 20 November 1925 Warsaw, Poland | (aged 61)
Pen name | Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla, Stefan Iksmoreż |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Polish |
Notable works |
Przedwiośnie Ludzie bezdomni Popioły Syzyfowe prace |
Spouse | Anna Zawadzka Oktawia Radziwiłłowicz |
Children | Monika Żeromska Adam Żeromski |
Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] ⓘ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". [1]
He also wrote under the pen names Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla, and Stefan Iksmoreż.
He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. [2]
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Stefan Żeromski was born on 14 October 1864 at Strawczyn, near Kielce.
On 2 September 1892, he married a widow, Oktawia Rodkiewicz, née Radziwiłłowicz, whom he had met at a spa in Nałęczów, co-owned by her stepfather. One of the witnesses at the wedding was the novelist Bolesław Prus, an admirer of Oktawia's who had not been in favor of the marriage. [3]
The newlyweds moved to Switzerland, where Żeromski worked from 1892 to 1896 as a librarian at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil . At Oktawia's request Prus, though no admirer of Żeromski's writings, [4] helped the struggling couple as much as he could.
In 1913 Żeromski started a new family with the painter Anna Zawadzka, whom he had met in 1908; they had a daughter, Monika.
In 1924, in recognition of Żeromski's achievements, President Stanisław Wojciechowski gave him a three-room apartment on the second floor of Warsaw's Royal Castle. [5]
In the same year, Żeromski was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature. [6]
He died on 20 November 1925 in Warsaw.
Żeromski's works have been translated into several languages. They have been translated into Croatian by a member of the Croatian Academy, Stjepan Musulin.
Several of Żeromski's novels have been filmed, by Walerian Borowczyk (Dzieje grzechu, " A Story of Sin"), Andrzej Wajda (Popioły, " Ashes"), and Filip Bajon (Przedwiośnie, " The Spring to Come"). In 2000, The Labors of Sisyphus (Syzyfowe prace), was adapted into a film of the same name by Paweł Komorowski.
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