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Which novel earned Henryk Sienkiewicz the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer." While he is widely celebrated for his historical trilogy, it was his international success with the novel Quo vadis? (1896)—a work set in Rome during the reign of Nero—that significantly bolstered his global reputation and contributed to his recognition by the Nobel committee.12