`Her poems are subtle, cool and deeply serious. They are little miracles of elegant sophistication'

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 4, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Even by the standards of the Nobel Prize Committee, the nomination of Wislawa Szymborska as this year's Literature laureate was pretty extreme.

A recent spell of comparatively well-known winners - Derek Walcott, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney - lulled the book world into thinking the Stockholm prize-givers were flirting with populism. After 90-odd years of giving the world's richest and most prestigious literary award to unknown and recondite talents (Erik Axel Karlfeldt in 1931, Halldor Laxness in 1955, not to mention the sinister Salvator Quasimodo in 1959) they suddenly seemed to be ...

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