Description
Wislawa Szymborska is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her translator, Joanna Trzeciak is the winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation in Slavic Studies.
About the Author
Wislawa Szymborska was born in Western Poland in 1923. Her poems have been translated (and published in book form) in many international languages. She is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995). She has a degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters of Poznan University (1995). In 1996 she received the Polish PEN Club prize, and is the1996 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Joanna Trzeciak's translations include Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Heldt Translation Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Awards
Winner of Heldt Prize for Translation 2002.
Book Information
ISBN 9780393323856
Author Wislawa Szymborska
Format Paperback
Page Count 172
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 13mm