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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Polish Noble laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies at 88

Renowned Polish poetess, critic, translator and Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska has died of lung cancer at the age of 88 at her home in Krakow.

According to her manager Michal Rusinek, Ms. Szymborska passed away “peacefully, sleeping” on February 1, 2012.

The polish poet received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 as the fifth Polish or Polish-born writer to have done so since the prize was created in 1901.

The Nobel Committee of the time called her the “Mozart of poetry” who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven.”

Wislawa Szymborska with her Nobel Prize medal in 1996

Ms. Szymborska was honored with Poland's highest distinction, The Order of the White Eagle, in recognition of her contribution to her country's culture in 2011.

Wislawa Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923 in the village of Bnin in Poland. By the time she was eight years old she was living in Krakow, the city she chose to stay in for the rest of her life.

In 1945 she published her first poem called "I am Looking for a Word" in a Polish daily newspaper.

Szymborska authored over a dozen collections of poetry and also translated the works of others from French.

---Wislawa Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923, near Poznan, in western Poland. When she was 8, her family moved to Krakow. During the Nazi occupation, she went to a clandestine school, risking German punishment, and later studied literature and sociology at the prestigious Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Her marriage to the poet Adam Wlodek ended in divorce. Her companion, the writer Kornel Filipowicz, died in 1990. She had no children, and no immediate family members survive.


Wisława Szymborska o Stalinie:
Ten dzień
o śmierci Józefa Stalina
Jaki rozkaz przekazuje nam
na sztandarach rewolucji profil czwarty?
- Pod sztandarem rewolucji wzmacniać warty!
Wzmocnić warty u wszystkich bram!
Oto Partia - ludzkości wzrok.
Oto Partia: siła ludów i sumienie.
Nic nie pójdzie z jego życia w zapomnienie.
Jego Partia rozgarnia mrok.
Niewzruszony drukarski znak
drżenia ręki mej piszącej nie przekaże,
nie wykrzywi go ból, łza nie zmaże.
A to słusznie. A to nawet lepiej tak.
O Leninie
..że w bój poprowadził krzywdzonych
..nowego człowieczeństwa Adam...
Wstępującemu do Partii
Pytania brzmią ostro
Ale tak właśnie trzeba
Bo wybrałeś życie komunisty
I przyszłość czeka
Twoich zwycięstw
Jeśli jak kamień w wodzie
Będzie twe czuwanie
Gdy oczy zamiast widzieć
Będą tylko patrzeć
Gdy wrząca miłość
W chłodne zamieni się sprzyjanie
Jeśli stopa przywyknie do drogi najgładszej
Partia. Należeć do niej
Z nią działać z nią marzyć
Z nią w planach nieulękłych
Z nią w trosce bezsennej
Wiesz mi to najpiękniejsze
Co się może zdarzyć
W czasie naszej młodości
Gwiazdy dwuramiennej

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