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Name
  
Eliza Orzeszkowa

Role
  
Novelist

Movies
  
Nad Niemnem


Eliza Orzeszkowa ELIZA ORZESZKOWA

Born
  
6 June 1841 Milkowszczyzna (
1841-06-06
)

Occupation
  
novelist, essayist, publisher

Notable works
  
Meir Ezofowicz, Nad Niemnem, Cham, Bene nati

Died
  
May 18, 1910, Grodno, Belarus

Spouse
  
Stanislaw Nahorski (m. 1894–1896), Piotr Orzeszko (m. 1858–1869)

Parents
  
Benedykt Pawlowski, Franciszka Kamienska

Books
  
Nad Niemnem, Gloria Victis, Dobra pani, On the Niemen, The Argonauts

Similar People
  
Maria Konopnicka, Boleslaw Prus, Stefan Zeromski, Maria Pawlikowska‑Jasnorzewska, Zbigniew Kuzminski

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Eliza Orzeszkowa (June 6, 1841 – May 18, 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism in Poland movement during foreign Partitions. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Biography

She was born to a noble Pawłowski family in Milkowszczyzna, and died in Grodno (now in Belarus) nearby. At the age of sixteen, Eliza married Piotr Orzeszko, a Polish nobleman twice her own age, who was exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising of 1863. They were legally separated in 1869. She married again in 1894, after a 30-year-long loving relationship with Stanisław Nahorski who died a few years later.

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Orzeszkowa wrote a series of 30 novels and 120 powerful sketches, dramas and novellas, dealing with the social conditions of her occupied country. Her novel Eli Makower (1875) describes the relations between the Jews and the Polish nobility; and Meir Ezofowicz (1878), the conflict between Jewish orthodoxy and modern liberalism. In 1888 Orzeszkowa wrote two novels about the Niemen River (now part of Belarus): Cham (The Boor) focused on the life of fishermen; and her most famous novel, Nad Niemnem (On the Niemen) – often compared to Pan Tadeusz – dealing with the issues of Polish aristocracy against the backdrop of political and social order. Her study on patriotism and cosmopolitanism appeared in 1880. A uniform edition of her works was published in Warsaw between 1884–1888. Much of her output is available also in German translation.

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In 1905 together with Henryk Sienkiewicz and Lev Tolstoy, Eliza Orzeszkowa was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded to Sienkiewicz. According to official records of the Nobel Prize committee, the idea of dividing the prize was rejected as an act of disparagement, and only the latter ended up as the laureate.

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