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Wisława Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in Prowent, the second daughter [8] of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her father was, at that time, the steward of Count Władysław Zamoyski , a Polish patriot and charitable patron .
In this way, Szymborska breaks with a traditional mental model according to which ignorance of death is a paradisiacal state. [22] According to Renate Ingbrant, Szymborska often uses an unusual point of view such as the one in the poem, through which the reader not only observes the cat, but is drawn into its feline nature in order to gain new ...
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Szymborska delivered her Nobel lecture entitled The Poet and the World in the Polish language on December 7, 1996 at the Swedish Academy. [12] During the Nobel banquet, on December 20, she expressed a short speech of gratitude, saying: "No one is accustomed to receiving a Nobel Prize. Therefore no one is accustomed to expressing gratitude for it.
O.J. Simpson. Issac Brekken-Pool/Getty Images A lawyer for Ron Goldman’s family is speaking out after O.J. Simpson, who was accused of murdering Goldman in 1994, died at age 76. Simpson “died ...
It "created at a stroke what without exaggeration might be called the seminal concern of contemporary anthropology, the study of kinship..." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the book Morgan argues that all human societies share a basic set of principles for social organization along kinship lines, based on the principles of consanguinity (kinship by blood) and ...
The death of Bob Woolmer, an English cricket coach, on 18 March 2007 while coaching Pakistan during the World Cup was given an open verdict on 28 November 2007, with the inquest after hearing from more than 50 witnesses over five weeks being unable to determine whether his death was due to murder, natural causes or an accident. [17] [18]
The Wisława Szymborska Award is a Polish annual international literature prize presented by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. It was established in 2013, and was named in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012). It is awarded to authors of best poetry works published the previous year.