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For many years, the writer Wis\u0142awa SZYMBORSKA<\/strong><\/a> created collages in postcard form which she sent to her friends to mark a variety of occasions. The exhibition being held in Brussels is showcasing a selection of 25 collages<\/strong> which reflect the poet\u2019s imagination and amount to a rare opportunity to show the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature<\/strong> in a new light. Just like her poetry, her collages are characterised by a mastery of cutting edge art and a surreal sense of humour.
The exhibition of collages by Wis\u0142awa SZYMBORSKA was shown for the first time in 2013 on the first anniversary of the poet\u2019s death. Since then, it has travelled in Poland and abroad, notably visiting Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, China and Kazakhstan.

As part of the exhibition, the conference,<\/strong> entitled 'Semi-literary collages: Wis\u0142awa Szymborska and Micha\u0142 Rusinek’, will be held on Thursday 29 November <\/strong>at the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) with, in attendance, the author, critic and literary translator Micha\u0142 RUSINEK<\/strong>, former secreatry of Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, and Dorota WALCZAK-DELANOIS, a teacher at the ULB.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

<\/strong>        EXHIBITION        <\/strong>
>>> Katarzyna Napi\u00f3rkowska<\/strong> Gallery<\/strong> (Monts des Arts 8, 1000 Brussels) \u2013 see map<\/a> 
>>> Friday 30 November<\/strong> > Tuesday 11 December<\/strong> 2018 – 12:00<\/strong> > 18:00<\/strong> (Tue > Sat)
>>> Opening: Friday 30 November <\/strong>2018 \u2013 19:00 
<\/strong>>>> free of charge 
<\/strong>Exposition organised under the patronage of His Excellency Artur Orzechowski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Kingdom of Belgium 

<\/em>        CONFERENCE        
<\/strong>>>> Maison des Arts of the ULB<\/strong> (Avenue Jeanne 56, 1050 Brussels) \u2013 see map<\/a> 
>>> Thursday 29 November<\/strong> 2018 \u2013 19:00 
<\/strong>>>> free of charge 
<\/strong>Conference given in Polish with consecutive interpretation into French<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WIS\u0141AWA SZYMBORSKA\u00a0<\/strong>made few waves in the second half of the XXth<\/sup>\u00a0century, but then she attracted the attention of the world\u2019s press and a wider public, when she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
Throughout a career spanning more than fifty years marked by the publication of fourteen collections of poetry in Poland (between 1952 and 2009), Szymborska provided an example of a creative approach which was perfectly independent whilst always managing to go to the heart of the preoccupations of her contemporaries, without this spirit of staying true to herself ever stopping her from moving on or growing. The collection widely considered to be her masterpiece,\u00a0Wszelki wypadek<\/em>\u00a0(Couldn\u2019t Have<\/em>, 1972), led to Szymborska being heralded a literary star in her country. Each of the following collections, which also revealed her taste for the happy medium, her horror of excess and distrust of lofty artistic ambitions, met with the same response.
Translated into numerous languages, her poetry easily crossed the borders of her country thanks to her clear language and the universality of the themes which she addresses.

Wis\u0142awa SZYMBORSKA\u00a0<\/strong>was born in 1923 in Bnin (today a part of K\u00f3rnik), near Poznan, in Poland. In 1931, her family moved to Krakow, Poland\u2019s intellectual capital, to which she remained faithful her whole life, making the university (where she studied literature and sociology), and the cafes and bookshops, which the city has in abundance, part of own her personal landscape. Szymborska belonged to the generation of sacrifice who spent the end of their adolescence in the shadow cast by Hitler and their early adulthood under the jackboot of their Soviet big brother. She claimed that those years marked her sensibility and intellect, so it was as a woman who was profoundly affected by the tragedy of the Second World War that she published her first poems, from 1945, in the journals and reviews for which she had begun to work. The long-time editor of the weekly review „\u017bycie Literackie”\u00a0(where\u00a0Zbigniew HERBERT<\/a>\u00a0also made his debut), Szymborska also worked as a translator. She contributed towards raising the awareness and appreciation of Baroque French poetry in her country, notably\u00a0Les Tragiques<\/em>\u00a0by Agrippa d\u2019Aubign\u00e9.
Szymborska died in Krakow on 1\u00a0February 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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