In the 20th century, five Polish authors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature – Henryk Sienkiewicz for ''Quo Vadis'', Władysław Reymont for ''The Peasants'', Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska. In 2019, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2018.