Wola Okrzejska ' is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Krzywda

Gmina Krzywda

Gmina Krzywda is a rural gmina in Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Krzywda, which lies approximately south-west of Łuków and north-west of the regional capital Lublin....

, within Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship

Lublin Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 24 counties : 4 city counties and 20 land counties. These are further divided into 213 gminas....

, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Krzywda

Krzywda, Lublin Voivodeship

Krzywda is a village in Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Krzywda. It lies approximately south-west of Łuków and north-west of the regional capital Lublin....

, 26 km (16 mi) south-west of Łuków, and 64 km (40 mi) north-west of the regional capital Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

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The village has a population of 980.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his...

, a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 journalist

Journalist

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 and Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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-winning novelist, was born there. Lewis Bernstein Namier

Lewis Bernstein Namier

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...

, an English historian, was born there as well.