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Also Known As Aleksander Głowacki
Born August 20, 1847 • Poland
Died May 19, 1912 (aged 64) • Warsaw • Poland

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Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
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Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Stefan Żeromski, pastel by Leon Wyczótłkowski, 1904; in the National Museum, Kraków, Poland.
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Witold Gombrowicz
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
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Joseph Conrad
British writer
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Stanisław Lem
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
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Polish writer
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
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Kraszewski, detail of an oil painting by X.J. Kaniewski; in the National Museum, Warsaw
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