poems new and collected wislawa szymborska

It was during this time that her career as an artist began with illustrations for an English-language textbook. From 1943, she worked as a railroad employee and managed to avoid being deported to Germany as a forced labourer. When World War II broke out in 1939, she continued her education in underground lessons. She has been linked with this city, where she studied, worked. In 1931, Szymborska's family moved to Kraków.

Szymborska's work has been translated into many European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese. Szymborska became better known internationally after she was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize. She has long been cherished by Polish literary contemporaries (including Czesław Miłosz) and her poetry has been set to music by Zbigniew Preisner. She is often described as modest to the point of shyness. Szymborska's reputation rests on a relatively small body of work: she has not published more than 250 poems to date. Szymborska's style is succinct and marked by introspection and wit. Szymborska's 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 members of human society. Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors-although she once remarked in a poem entitled 'Some like poetry' that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Szymborska's 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 Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation:, born Jin Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation:, born Jin Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator.

Poems new and collected wislawa szymborska