Nobel winner’s poetry collection published in Vietnam

The poetry collection by late Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska-Wlodek.. Photo source: Vietnam+.

(Cinet) – The poetry collection by late Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska-Wlodek, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, has just been published in Vietnam on July 16.

The collection, which was published by the Viet Nam Writers’ Association Publishing House, translated 119 poems into Vietnamese by Ta Minh Chau from the Polish language.

Szymborska won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996. Born on the 2nd of July 1923 in Bnin near Poznań. Prominent citizen of Kraków, she died there on the 1st of February 2012. She was described as the “Mozart of Poetry.” Szymborska was awarded the Nobel Prize “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”

In Viet Nam, her poems have been published in various literature publications, yet this is the first time a collection by her has been introduced.

All of her works contain a common message: the beauty of life overwhelms every corner, every time, even in the simplest things.

Translator Ta Minh Chau spent a long time studying and working in Poland, where he had met Szymborska several times. He said though Szymborska never been to Viet Nam but she wrote on the wars in the country in two poems namely “The Shied” and “Viet Nam.” The poems help people around the world get a better understanding on the just revolutions of the Vietnamese people, and the virtuosity of the people in general, and Vietnamese women in particular.

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