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Eliza Orzeszkowa

1841 - 1910 · Novelist · b. in Milkowszczyzna

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Polish novelist (1841-1910)

Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Key achievements

  • 01Author of the novel On the Niemen
  • 02Leading Positivist writer
  • 03Advocate of women's rights

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