Henryk Sienkiewicz - Recognition

Recognition

  • Named after Sienkiewicz, in Poland, are streets in Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Sienkiewicza Street in Kielce, and Białystok's Osiedle Sienkiewicza; city parks in Wrocław and Łódź; and many schools in Poland. There are standing statues of Sienkiewicz in Częstochowa and Słupsk, and a large seated statue in Warsaw's Łazienki Park.
  • Many of Sienkiewicz's works have been translated into Hebrew and were popular in the 1940s among Mandatory Palestine's Jewish community, many of whom were immigrants and refugees from Poland, and also during Israel's early decades. Often, parents who had in their youth liked the books in the original Polish, introduced the translations to their children who did not know Polish. However, in later generations the books' popularity in Israel has waned
  • Well-known and renowned in the former Soviet Union, in part from initial popularity garnered as a rising star and Nobel laureate who was a citizen and resident of what was then part of the Russian Empire, but likely moreso due to memorable epic films based on his works. Sienkiewicz novels were adapted to the big screen and became one of the primary sources for the swashbuckling sword and chivalry film genre in the Eastern Bloc.

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