What was the nationality of Henryk Sienkiewicz: Aramean, Mexican, Polish or Frankish?

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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, who wrote under the pen name Litwos, was born on 5 May 1846 into a family of impoverished Polish nobles in Wola Okrzejska, then part of the Russian Empire.

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