Luanda - The Polish poetess Wislawa Szymborska was honored on Wednesday in Luanda, for her contribution in Polish and world literature, in an initiative of the Angolan Writers Union (UEA), in partnership with the Polish Embassy in Angola.
At the occasion, the UEA’s General Secretary, David Capelenguela, said the homage comes in the scope of the March 21 celebration, World Poetry Day, as well as for her literary engagement in the world, which earned her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
In his turn, the Polish ambassador in Angola, Piotr Myśliwiec, considered it an added value to divulge a little more the works of the poetess.
The Polish ambassador also highlighted the role of some Angolan writers who made the history of poetry in Angola, having given as an example Agostinho Neto, António Jacinto and Viriato da Cruz.
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was born in Kórnik, Poland, on July 2, 1923. Poetess, literary critic and translator, she lived in Krakow, where she graduated in Polish Philology and Sociology at the Jagiellonian University.
Her extensive work, translated into 36 languages, has been characterized by the Stockholm academy as a poetry that, with ironic precision, allows the historical and biological context to manifest itself in fragments of human reality, and the poet has been defined as "The Mozart of poetry."
