Reymont, Władysław, << RAY mont, vwah DIH swahf >> (1867-1925), a Polish novelist, won the 1924 Nobel Prize for literature. Reymont’s most acclaimed work is the four-volume novel The Peasants (1904-1909). The work is a vivid portrayal of peasant life in a remote Polish village during the four seasons of a year. Reymont wrote the novel almost entirely in peasant dialect.
Władysław Stanisław Reymont was born on May 7, 1867, in Kobiele Wielke, Poland, near Piotrków. His first novel, The Comedienne (1896), portrays Polish theatrical life near the end of the 1800’s. The Promised Land (1899) was one of the first European novels to describe the effects of industrialization on society. His last major work was the trilogy The Year 1794 (1913-1918), which explores the social and political changes that faced Poland at the end of the 1700’s. Reymont died on Dec. 5, 1925.
