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Born	March 7, 1839 • Poland
Died	June 3, 1902 (aged 63) • Poland
Notable Works	“Gody życia”
Movement / Style	naturalism

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Polish poet

Tadeusz Borowski

Polish author

Maria Konopnicka

Polish author

Kazimierz Tetmajer

Polish author

Sandra Cisneros

American author

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Stephen Crane

American writer

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Danish author

Joel Lehtonen

Finnish author

Otto Erich Hartleben

German writer

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish poet

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish author

Maria Dąbrowska

Polish author and critic

Adam Zagajewski

Polish writer

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish writer

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Polish author

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Polish writer

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Juliusz Słowacki

Polish author

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