Władysław Reymont 1867-1925 by Kamil Kostyszyn
Władysław Reymont was born in May 1867 in Kobiel Wielki and died in December 1925 in Warsaw.
Reymont's parents Józef Reymont had a musical education and was an organist in Tuszyńska parish. Antonina Kupczyńska – Reymont’s mother had a talent for storytelling. She came from the nobility.
House of Reymont in Lipce Reymontowskie
Some interesting facts about Reymont
He was trained to be a tailor. He worked as an actor, a medium and served as monk.
Yesr 2017
in Poland was dedicated to Władysław Reymont. The Polish read his works and organised events connected to this writer.
Reymont was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning fourvolume novel Chłopi (The
In Chłopi, Reymont created a suggestive picture of country life. The novel impresses the reader with given examples of reality, customs, behaviour and spiritual culture of the people who use local dialect.
In „Chłopi” Reymont described one year from the life of a family full of unexpected events, new experiences and every day life activities.