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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 .
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 ...
Osman Achmatowicz; Józef Boguski; Kazimierz Boratyński; Jan Czochralski, modern semiconductors; Emil Czyrniański; Tadeusz Estreicher, cryogenics pioneer; Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American physical chemist
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 ...
Adam Włodek (8 August 1922, in Kraków – 19 January 1986, in Kraków) was a Polish poet, editor, and translator.. He was married to Polish Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska between 1948 and 1954. [1]
Many widely read writers, like Leo Tolstoy, have never won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". [1]
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.
Ludwika Wawrzyńska (Polish pronunciation: [luˈdvika vaˈvʐɨj̃ska]; 1908–1955) was a Polish teacher who worked at an elementary school in Warsaw.On February 8, 1955 she rescued four children from a burning house where they had been locked by their parents as they were leaving for work.