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Wislawa Szymborska

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996

Poetry

Wislawa Szymborska Five poems by Wislawa Szymborska

Selected by Åke Erlandsson, chief librarian, Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy, and Michal Bron.

 

In English
Utopia
On Death, without Exaggeration
The Three Oddest Words
Possibilities
The Joy of Writing
 
In Polish
Utopia
O smierci bez przesady
Trzy slowa najdziwniejsze
Mozliwosci
Radosc pisania
 
In Swedish
Utopia
Om döden utan överdrift
Tre högst besynnerliga ord
Möjligheter
Glädjen att skriva
 

 

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