From Pole to Pole PAUL BAILEY
Nov 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Wisława Szymborska
Translated and edited by Clare Cavanagh
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From 1968 until 1981, the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1996, worked as a kind of agony aunt for the magazine Literary Life, which was based in Kraków.
She took turns with a colleague to give advice and practical criticism to the many readers who wrote in with requests for advice and criticism. The majority sent examples of their writing – often only a
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