Album Noble European Writers

Author(s): Aleksandra Maj, Piotr Rutkowski School: Gimnazjum im ks Wac ł awa Rabczy ń skiego Town, Country: Wasilków / Poland

Wis ł awa Szymborska  Date of birth : 2nd July 2923  Date of death: 1st February  Birthplace: Bnin near Pozna ń, Poland  Nationality: Polish  Jobs : Poet and essayist  Some of her works:  That’s Why We Are Alive ( 1954)  "Questioning Yourself", (1954)  "The End and the Beginning„1993  Moment s (2002)  Rhymes for Big Kids„(2003)  Colon ( 2005)  Here ( 2009)  Enough (2012)  Prize: Literature Nobel (1996)

Szymborska’s poetical output, though modest in quantity – about 350 published poems, from her volume „Calling Out to Yeti” (1957) to the posthumously released „Enough” (2012) – was always highly regarded by critics and readers. She was described as a "Mozart of Poetry" Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human realitySzymborska did not enjoy ostentation or celebrations – being declared the the Nobel laureate was considered "the Stockholm tragedy" by her friends, as it forced her to give more interviews in a month than she had faced in her life until the Nobel committee's decision in Szymborska was once asked by Marian Stala why she doesn’t like pathos. Her answer may serve as a general artistic statement: "When I write I always feel as if somebody was standing behind me and making funny faces. That is why I always keep focused and I avoid, as much as I may, big words". Quotes by Wis ł awa Szymborska : “We live longer but less precisely and with shorter sentences „ „ A man who hans’t tasted his own tears is not a real man” Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

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