Władysław Reymont

Władysław Reymont, Polish writer. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924 for his masterpiece, the peasant saga "The Peasants" (Chłopi), a four-volume rural epic depicting life in a Polish village. He also wrote "The Promised Land", a critical portrait of industrialization in Poland. Self-taught, he worked as a railway worker before dedicating himself to literature. He died in Warsaw on December 5, 1925, he was 58 years old.