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Wisława Szymborska (born July 2, 1923) is a Polish poet, essayist and translator of French literature, laureate of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the Polish language. ... Essay, a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... French literature is literature written in the French language; and especially, literature written in French by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written in other languages of France. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

She was born in Bnin (now a part of Kórnik) near Poznań in Poland. In 1931 her family moved to Kraków. Since then, Szymborska has been linked with the city of Kraków where she studied, worked, and still resides. The Poznan is also a breed of horse, There is also American Poznan, OH. The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada miasta Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski Area 326,8 km² Population - city - urban - density 757,500 (2004 est. ...

In March 1945, Szymborska published her first poem "Szukam słowa" ("I seek the word") in the daily paper "Dziennik Polski." March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

From 1945 to 1948 she studied Polish language and sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Polish (polski, język polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups, and societies, sometimes defined as the study of social interactions. ... Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński) is a university in Krakow, Poland. ...

Her poems were published in a variety of newspapers and periodicals for a number of years immediately after World War II. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

In 1953, she joined the staff of the literature review magazine called "Życie Literackie" (Literary Life) where she continued to work until 1981. Szymborska wrote a book review column entitled "Lektury Nadobowiązkowe" (Non-required Reading). Many of the articles were later published in book form. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Szymborska has also translated French lyric poetry, especially Baroque poetry and Agrippa d'Aubigné. Lyric poetry is the purest form of poetry, which does not attempt to tell a story, as do epic poetry and dramatic poetry. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint The Baroque was a style in art that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce... Théodore-Agrippa dAubigné (February 8, 1552 – April 29, 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. ...

During the 1980s, she was participated in the Polish "samizdat" movement and wrote under the pseudonym Stanczykówna for "Arka" and in the exile magazine "Kultura", which was published in Paris, France. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Samizdat (self-published, in Russian самиздат) was a grassroots strategy to evade officially imposed censorship in the Soviet-bloc countries wherein people clandestinely copied and distributed government-suppressed literature or other media. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Her poetry has been translated to many European languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese. This article is about the continent. ... Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ...

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Prizes and Awards

The City of Cracow Prize for Literature, 1954
The Polish Ministry of Culture Prize, 1963
The Goethe Prize, 1991
The Herder Prize, 1995
Honorary Doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 1995
The Polish PEN Club prize, 1996
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1996

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Major Works

Dlatego żyjemy (That's Why We Are Alive) (1952)
Pytania zadawane sobie (Questioning Yourself) (1954)
Wołanie do Yeti (Calling Out to Yeti) (1957)
Sól (Salt) (1962)
101 wierszy (101 Poems) (1966)
Sto pociech (No End of Fun) (1967)
Poezje wybrane (Selected Poetry) (1967)
Wszelki wypadek (Could Have) (1972)
Wielka liczba (A Large Number) (1976)
Ludzie na moście (People on the Bridge) (1986)
Poezje: Poems (bilingual Polish-English edition) (1989)
Lektury nadobowiązkowe (Non-required Reading) (1992)
Koniec i początek (The End and the Beginning) (1993)
Widok z ziarnkiem piasku (View with a Grain of Sand) (1996)
Sto wierszy - sto pociech (100 Poems - 100 Happinesses) (1997)
Chwila (Moment) (2002)
Rymowanki dla dużych dzieci (Rhymes for Big Kids) (2003)

Her poetic style is based on a tradition of 20th century poetry and humanistic mainstream. However, she detaches herself from current philosophical, artistic and cultural trends. Her poems include irony, paradoxes and jokes. She has also written limericks. Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Humanism is a general term for many different lines of thought which focus on common solutions to common human issues. ... Adolf Hitler: layered visual irony? What is Irony? Irony is a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used. ... Robert Boyles self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines do not exist. ... A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ... A limerick is a short, often humorous and ribald poem developed to a very specific structure. ...

She has a wide group of devoted readers and her collections of poems regularly reach the circulation of some popular novels.

External Links

Wislawa Szymborska (http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1996/): Including biography and Nobel speech - NobelPrize.org
Poems of Wislawa Szymborska (http://www.poetseers.org/nobel_prize_for_literature/wislawa_szymborska/library/)
Wislawa Szymborska in translation (http://www.arlindo-correia.com/100901.html)