Reymont, Wladyslaw, RAY mont, vlah DIH slahf (1867-1925), a Polish novelist, won the 1924 Nobel Prize for literature. Reymont's most acclaimed work is the four-volume novel The Peasants (1904-1909). The work is a vivid portrayal of peasant life in a remote Polish village during the four seasons of a year. Reymont wrote the novel almost entirely in peasant dialect.