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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born into an impoverished noble family in Russian-ruled Poland in 1846, Sienkiewicz started publishing journalism and fiction in the late 1860s. A trip to the United States in the late 1870s produced travel essays that made him popular at home, and in the 1880s he began serializing novels that turned him into one of Poland's most-read writers. His "Trilogy"—With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael—chronicles the 17th-century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and remains canonical in Poland. But it was Quo Vadis, his 1895–96 epic set in Nero's Rome, that crossed borders: translated widely, it brought him the Nobel Prize in Literature a decade later "for his outstanding merits as an epic writer." He died in 1916, his novels still in print and repeatedly adapted to film, including Hollywood's 1951 Quo Vadis.