Eliza Orzeszkowa
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Notable works | Meir Ezofowicz, Nad Niemnem, Cham, Bene nati |
Spouse | Piotr Orzeszko Stanisław Nahorski |
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Eliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 1841 – 18 May 1910) was a Polish
Life and career
She was born in Milkowszczyzna
Orzeszkowa wrote a series of 30
In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz and Leo Tolstoy, 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.[7]
Remembrance
In 1929, the statue of Orzeszkowa was unveiled in Grodno (present-day Belarus). In 1938, Eliza Orzeszkowa's bust designed by Henryk Kuna was unveiled in Warsaw's Praski Park.
In 1978, a biographical film titled Ty pójdziesz górą... devoted to Orzeszkowa was directed by Zygmunt Skonieczny with Hanna Maria Giza portraying the novelist. The film was part of a cycle of films Figures of Polish literature and premiered in 1980.[8]
In 2023, during the 12th edition of the National Reading Day, her book Nad Niemnem was read in numerous public places. The President of Poland Andrzej Duda as well as the First Lady of Poland Agata Kornhauser-Duda took part in the campaign.[9]
Selected works
- Obrazek z lat głodowych 1866
- Ostatnia miłość, 1868
- Z życia realisty, 1868
- Na prowincji, 1870
- W klatce, 1870
- Cnotliwi, 1871
- Pamiętnik Wacławy, 1871
- Pan Graba, 1872
- Na dnie sumienia, 1873
- Marta, 1873
- Eli Makower, 1875
- Rodzina Brochwiczów, 1876
- Pompalińscy, 1876
- Maria, 1877
- Meir Ezofowicz, 1878
- Z różnych sfer, 1879–1882
- Widma, 1881
- Sylwek Cmentarnik, 1881
- Zygmunt Ławicz i jego koledzy, 1881
- Bańka mydlana, 1882–1883
- Pierwotni, 1883
- Niziny, 1885
- Dziurdziowie, 1885
- Mirtala, 1886
- Nad Niemnem (On the Niemen), 1888
- Cham (The Boor), 1888
- Panna Antonina (collection of novels), 1888
- W zimowy wieczór (collection of novels), 1888
- Czciciel potęgi, 1891
- Jędza, 1891
- Bene nati, 1891
- Westalka, 1891
- Dwa bieguny, 1893
- Melancholicy, 1896
- Australczyk, 1896
- Iskry (collection of novels), 1898
- Argonauci (The Argonauts),[10] 1900
- Ad astra. Dwugłos, 1904
- I pieśń niech zapłacze, 1904
- Gloria victis(collection of novellas), 1910
Journalism for social justice
- Kilka słów o kobietach (On women),[11] 1870
- Patriotyzm i kosmopolityzm, 1880
- O Żydach i kwestii żydowskiej, 1882
References
- ^ Eliza Orzeszkowa, Britannica, Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ^ a b HARGREAVES-MAWDSLEY, W.N (1968). Everyman's Dictionary of European Writers. Loondon: Aldine press. p. 400.
- ^ "Eliza Orzeszkowa" from the Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b Prof. dr hab. Józef Bachórz, Eliza Orzeszkowa. Virtual Library of Polish Literature. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ Eliza Orzeszkowa. Słownik pisarzy polskich. Brykowisko. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and Reports 1901–1950
- ^ "Ty pójdziesz górą". filmpolski.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "The National Reading Day in Poland". explore-poland.eu. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ Project Gutenberg's "The Argonauts" by Eliza Orzeszko (aka Orzeszkowa). Translator: Jeremiah Curtin, 1901.
- ^ "Kilka słów o kobietach" by E. Orzeszkowa. Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Orzeszko, Eliza". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 343. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the