The document summarizes biographical information about several famous Polish writers and poets: - Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and novelist best known for his historical novels like Quo Vadis. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature. - Adam Mickiewicz was a leading Polish poet who was imprisoned in Russia and later left for Constantinople where he died while trying to create a Polish force fighting Russia. - Bolesław Prus, whose real name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a writer and columnist who took part in the January Uprising against Russia. He wrote several novels and stories. - Władysław Reymont