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The poem "Thinking up the world" (Obmyślam świat) in Szymborska's early poetry collection Calling out to Yeti (Wołanie do Yeti) from 1957 already proclaimed a "language of plants and animals." [11] Numerous poems about animals followed in her later work, for example in the selected volume Tarsjusz i inne wiersze from 1976. [12]
2001 The New Republic: "Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska" by Ruth Franklin; 2006 The Christian Science Monitor: A fascinating journey with two women poets by Elizabeth Lund ; 2006 Moondance magazine: Stories/Poems. Plain and Simple. – Mapping the Words of Wislawa Szymborska on Her Latest Book, Monologue of a Dog by Lys Anzia
The 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality." [1] [2] Szymborska is the 9th female recipient and the 5th Nobel laureate from Poland after Czesław Miłosz in ...
Wislawa Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator; won 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature; Alcira Cardona Torrico (1926–2003), Bolivian writer and poet; Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004), American poet; 36th US Poet Laureate; Phyllis Webb (1927–2021), Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
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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.