[:en]Looking for the word / Evening of the poetry of Vislava Šimborska 01.02.2018. Polet

Evening poems by Vislava Simborska Polish poet, essayist and translator (July 2, 1923, Bnin – February 1, 2012, Krakow) will be held on Thursday, February 1, at 6 pm at the Galerie Polet.

The selected poems by Vislava Simborska will be read by the Belgrade poets with which we will give a sort of homage to this Polish poet in the summer.

Often using irony, paradox, contradiction and incongruity, a humorous and introspective expression, in its poetry reflects philosophical themes and interests. Her poetry is full of existential questions and reflections on people as individuals and members of the human community. Critics judged that her poetry reflects the perfect unity of a deep ethical and physiological attitude and a lyrical poetic expression.

She published dozens of poetry collections, two of which were translated in Yugoslavia, “People on the Bridge” (1989) and “End and Beginning”, 1996. In addition, Šimborska also translated the French medieval castle, and published two collections of literary criticism. It has been translated to almost all European languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese.

1996. year she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in the explanation for the award of the Nobel Committee, she called Simborsky a Mozart of Poetry, a woman who blended the elegance of the language with “the bevin of Betoven”. She was the fourth winner of the Nobel Prize from Poland – Henrik Sjenkievich (1905), Vladislav Stanislav Rejmont (1024) and Ceslav Milos (1980) received this award.