Władysław Stanisław Reymont

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Also Known As	Władysław Stanisław Rejment
Born	May 7, 1867
Died	December 5, 1925 (aged 58) • Warsaw • Poland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1924)
Notable Works	“The Peasants” • “The Promised Land”
Movement / Style	Young Poland movement

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Polish author

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Stefan Żeromski

Polish author

William Faulkner

American author

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Albert Camus

French author

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian author

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Alice Munro

Canadian author

Günter Grass

German writer

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John Galsworthy

British writer

Mo Yan

Chinese author

José Saramago

Portuguese author

Ōe Kenzaburō

Japanese writer

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

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