Wis awa Szymborska Polish pronunciation v is wava m b rska born July 2 1923 in K rnik Poland is a Polish poet essayist and translator She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature In Poland her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors although she once remarked in a poem entitled Some like poetry Niekt rzy lubi poezj that no than two out of a thousand people care for the art. Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony paradox contradiction and understatement to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions Szymborskas compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles touching on issues of ethical import and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as Wis awa Szymborska Polish pronunciation v is wava m b rska born July 2 1923 in K rnik Poland is a Polish poet essayist and translator She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature In Poland her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors although she once remarked in a poem entitled Some like poetry Niekt rzy lubi poezj that no than two out of a thousand people care for the art. Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony paradox contradiction and understatement to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions Szymborska s compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles touching on issues of ethical import as well as into Arabic Hebrew Japanese and Chinese. When World War II broke out in 1939 she continued her education in underground lessons From 1943 she worked as a railroad employee and managed to avoid being deported to Germany as a forced labourer It was during this time that her career as an artist began with illustrations for an English language textbook She also began writing stories and occasional poems. Beginning in 1945 Szymborska took up studies of Polish language and literature before switching to sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krak w There she soon became involved in the local writing scene and met and was influenced by Czes aw Mi osz In March 1945 she published her first poem Szukam s owa I seek the word in the daily paper Dziennik Polski her poems continued to be published in various newspapers and periodicals for a number of years In 1948 she quit her studies without a degree due to her poor financial circumstances the same year she married poet Adam W odek whom she divorced in 1954 At that time she was working as a secretary for an educational biweekly magazine as well as an illustrator. During Stalinism in Poland in 1953 she participated in the defamation of Catholic priests from Krak w who were groundlessly condemned by the ruling Communists to death 1 Her first book was to be published in 1949 but did not pass censorship as it did not meet socialist requirements Like many other intellectuals in post war Poland however Szymborska remained loyal to the PRL official ideology early in her career signing political petitions and praising Stalin Lenin and the realities of socialism This attitude is seen in her debut collection Dlatego yjemy That is what we are living for containing the poems Lenin and M odzie y buduj cej Now Hut For the Youth that Builds Nowa Huta about the construction of a Stalinist industrial town near Krak w She also became a member of the ruling Polish United Workers Party. Like many Polish intellectuals initially close to the official party line Szymborska gradually grew estranged from socialist ideology and renounced her earlier political work Although she did not officially leave the party until 1966 she began to establish contacts with dissidents As early as 1957 she befriended Jerzy Giedroyc the editor of the influential Paris based emigr journal Kultura to which she also contributed In 1964 s site_link Nepr tomnos Geni lna Szymborska Nepr tomnos ahkos s akou Szymborska p e o ne ahkom je obdivuhodn Obrazy situ cie postrehy a pocity ktor zachyt va s origin lne a univerz lne z rove Skvel b sne skvel autorka Si teda Jednoducho v e te trvaj com okamihu Sie bola jednook a ty cez to oko Neviem sa vyna udova vyml a sa z toho. Po vajako r chlo mi bije tvoje srdce Nepr tomnos Wislawa Szymborska je moja oblubena poetka este z cias po vysokej skole kedy som ju objavila Znovu a znovu sa viem vratit do jej poetiky ktora ma utvrdzuje o tom ze basne su nadherny vyjadrovaci prostriedok pre momenty pre ktore je tazko najst jednoznacne slova Nepr tomnos
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And reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as members of human society Szymborska s style is succinct and marked by introspection and wit. In 1931 Szymborska s family moved to Krak w She has been linked with this city where she studied worked