Wislawa Szymborska

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(person) by Gritchka (2.3 y) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sat Jul 28 2001 at 18:22:53

Wisława Szymborska

A Polish poet, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature. She has only written a small number of poems (250 is one estimate), but she has always been very popular within Poland. Though she had received a number of European prizes before that, her work was not popularly known outside her country until the Nobel brought her to general attention. Her collections include:

Dlagtego Zyjemy 1952
Wolanie do Yeti (Appeal to the Yeti) 1957
Sol (Salt) 1962
Sto pociech (A Hundred Joys) 1967
Wszelki wypadek (Any Case) 1972
Wielka liczba (High Numbers) 1976
Ludzie na moscie (People on a Bridge) 1986
Poczatek i koniec (The Beginning and the End) 1993
Widok z ziarnkiem piasku (View with a Grain of Sand) 1996
Lektury nadobowiazkowe (Optional Reads) 1992
Sto wierszy - sto pociech (A Hundred Poems - A Hundred Solaces) 1997

Szymborska was born in Bnin, near Poznań, in 1923, and moved to Torun in 1926 and Cracow in 1931, where she has remained. From 1945 she studied Polish literature and sociology at the Jagiellonian University. She has repudiated her earliest works (in the early 1950s) because they were influenced by party censorship. She began working for the literary weekly Zycie Literackie in 1953, and became an editor of Pizmo in 1981.

(idea) by rubymoon (4 y) (print) ? I like it! Mon May 20 2002 at 3:12:15

It is believed that the works of Wislawa Szymborska are inspiration for some films by Polish Filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowksi. Notably the poem "Love at first sight", which may have served as the inspiration for the storyline of Kieslowski's final film: "Trois couleurs: Rouge"; (Three colours: Red) (1994).

And her poem Seance, may have influenced Kieslowski on the subjects of Fate and chance meetings.

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Krzysztof Kieslowski	Love at first sight	Czeslaw Milosz	Nobel Prize in Literature
An unexpected meeting	Polish Romanticism	If you know a religion to be false, should you tell its followers?	An Opinion on the Question of Pornography
Life in Northampton, Massachusetts	Thank you note	prose poetry	Brigitte Bardot
Shoot first, debate dialectical materialism later	The Spring Pond Beavers	Three Colours	Michael McClure
Costa Rica	Yeti	Poznan	Polish
Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Fiction	Miracle Fair	Robert Frost

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