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Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland , in the late s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers.

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In the s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer".

Many of his novels remain in print. The Trilogy and Quo Vadis have been filmed, the latter several times, with Hollywood's version receiving the most international recognition. Sienkiewicz came into the world on 5 May in Wola Okrzejska , now a village in the central part of the eastern Polish region of Lubelskie , then part of the Russian Empire.

His mother descended from an old and affluent Podlachian family. He completed extramural secondary-school classes, and in he received his secondary-school diploma.

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Meanwhile, in , he had debuted as a fiction writer with his short novel Na marne In Vain , published in the magazine Wieniec Garland. On 24 March Sienkiewicz left the U. In April Sienkiewicz returned to Polish soil. In the first collected edition of Sienkiewicz's works was published, in four volumes; the series would continue until , ending with a total of 17 volumes.

In Sienkiewicz wrote a historical novella, Niewola tatarska Tartar Captivity. From he increasingly shifted his focus from short pieces to historical novels.