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Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] (listen); 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature".[1]

Stefan Żeromski
Żeromski (pastel by Kazimierz Mordasewicz, 1909)
Born(1864-10-14)14 October 1864
Strawczyn, Kingdom of Poland
Died20 November 1925(1925-11-20) (aged 61)
Warsaw, Poland
Pen nameMaurycy Zych, Józef Katerla, Stefan Iksmoreż
OccupationWriter
NationalityPolish
Notable worksPrzedwiośnie
Ludzie bezdomni
Popioły
Syzyfowe prace
SpouseAnna Zawadzka
Oktawia Radziwiłłowicz
ChildrenMonika Żeromska
Adam Żeromski
Niewiadomski's 1900 portrait of Żeromski
Niewiadomski's 1900 portrait of Żeromski
Chata (Cottage), Żeromski's house at Nałęczów
Chata ("Cottage"), Żeromski's house at Nałęczów
Plaque at Rapperswil Castle commemorating Żeromski
Plaque at Rapperswil Castle commemorating Żeromski

He also wrote under the pen names Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla, and Stefan Iksmoreż.

He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2]


Life


Stefan Żeromski was born on 14 October 1864 at Strawczyn, near Kielce.

On 2 September 1892, he married a widow, Oktawia Rodkiewiczowa, née Radziwiłłowiczówna, whom he had met at a spa in Nałęczów, co-owned by her stepfather. One of the witnesses at the wedding was the novelist Bolesław Prus, an admirer of Oktawia's who had not been in favor of the marriage.[3]

The newlyweds moved to Switzerland, where Żeromski worked from 1892 to 1896 as a librarian at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil . At Oktawia's request Prus, though no admirer of Żeromski's writings,[4] helped the struggling couple as much as he could.

In 1913 Żeromski started a new family with the painter Anna Zawadzka, whom he had met in 1908; they had a daughter, Monika.

In 1924, in recognition of Żeromski's achievements, President Stanisław Wojciechowski gave him a three-room apartment on the second floor of Warsaw's Royal Castle.[5]

In the same year, Żeromski was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[6]

He died on 20 November 1925 in Warsaw.


Selected works


Żeromski's works have been translated into several languages. They have been translated into Croatian by a member of the Croatian Academy, Stjepan Musulin.


Films


Several of Żeromski's novels have been filmed, by Walerian Borowczyk (Dzieje grzechu, "A Story of Sin"), Andrzej Wajda (Popioły, "Ashes"), and Filip Bajon (Przedwiośnie, "The Spring to Come").


See also



Notes


  1. The Lublin Province Museum: Stefan Żeromski Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
  3. Monika Piątkowska, Prus: Śledztwo biograficzne (Prus: A Biographical Investigation), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Znak, 2017, ISBN 978-83-240-4543-3, p. 466.
  4. Monika Piątkowska, Prus: Śledztwo biograficzne (Prus: A Biographical Investigation), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Znak, 2017, ISBN 978-83-240-4543-3, p. 358.
  5. Aleksander Gieysztor, Stanisław Herbst, Stanisław Lorentz, Władysław Tomkiewicz, Jan Zachwatowicz, Zamek Królewski w Warszawie (Warsaw's Royal Castle), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1972, p. 173.
  6. Polish culture: The Stefan Żeromski Museum at www.culture.pl

References




Media related to Stefan Żeromski at Wikimedia Commons


На других языках


- [en] Stefan Żeromski

[ru] Жеромский, Стефан

Сте́фан Жеро́мский (польск. Stefan Żeromski; 14 октября 1864, Стравчин недалеко от Кельц — 20 ноября 1925, Варшава) — польский писатель, драматург, публицист.



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