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Szymborska, Wislawa
Born: 1923 AD
Currently alive, at 85 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Currently alive, at 85 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
Polish poet
wrote poetry collections "Questions Put to Myself" 1954, "Calling Out to Yeti" 1957, "Salt" 1962, "No End of Fun" 1967, "A Large Number" 1976, "The People on the Bridge" 1986, "The End and the Beginning" 1993
Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
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Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska (Paperback - Nov 16, 2000) All poets, according to Wislawa Szymborska, are in a perpetual dialogue with the phraseI don't know. "Each poem," she writes in her 1996 Nobel Lecture, "marks an effort to answer this statement, but...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska (Paperback - May 26, 1995) True, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy have made more than their share of bloopers. But when they bestowed the Nobel Prize upon Wislawa Szymborska in 1996, they got it right, rescuing a major...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts by Wislawa Szymborska (Paperback - Aug 1, 1981) Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska (Hardcover - May 17, 2001) A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of... |
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People on a Bridge: Poems by Wislawa Szymborska and Adam Czerniawski (Paperback - Apr 17, 1990) |
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I don't know: the 1996 Nobel lecture. (Wislawa Szymborska speech): An article from: World Literature Today (Digital - Jan 1, 1997) This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2075 words. The page length shown above is based... Available for download now |
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