Post by gardenmoma on Jul 2, 2006 21:15:55 GMT -7
While looking for something else I came upon this information.
I thought some of you might be interested in the following:
From: The Writer's Almanac at Public Radio
writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
I believe we've discussed this writer before on this Forum, but am unable to find the discussion and link to it.
More about her and her works can be found at this site:
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/szymbor.htm
GM :
I thought some of you might be interested in the following:
From: The Writer's Almanac at Public Radio
writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
I believe we've discussed this writer before on this Forum, but am unable to find the discussion and link to it.
July 2 - It's the birthday of Wislawa Szymborska, www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/oop/click_ord/listbooks.html?sid=5325&type=a&binding=&qkey=Szymborska%2C+Wislawa&assoc_id=writ(books by this author) born in Poland (1923). When she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, few people outside of Poland had ever heard of her. Her first poems were published in the Krakov newspaper, and for almost twenty years she edited a weekly column for the journal Literary Life. Her early poems dealt with the horrors of World War II and of the Stalin era. Her later poems are more personal, and her work is celebrated for its candor and gentle humor. When she accepted the Nobel Prize, she said, "They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway."
More about her and her works can be found at this site:
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/szymbor.htm
GM :
