Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887) was a Polish writer and novelist.
A prolific writer, Kraszewski (Krah-SHEFF-ski) produced more than two hundred novels.
He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-three novels in seventy-nine parts.
The first book in the series, Stara Baśń (An Ancient Tale) (1876) was recently made into a movie by Jerzy Hoffman.
As a novelist on Polish history, Kraszewski is generally regarded as second only to Henryk Sienkiewicz.
