Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Polish poet's will calls for new prize, foundation

FILE - In this file photo dated, Oct. 3, 1996. Wislawa Szymborska, the 73 year-old Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature, during an interview with The Associated Press in the southern mountain resort of Zakopane. Szymborska died Feb. 1, 2012 of lung cancer at 88, her will was opened Wednesday, Feb. 29 in Krakow and its contents described by her personal secretary, Michal Rusinek, at a news conference. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file) The will of the late Nobel-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska calls for the establishment of a new literary prize and a foundation that will guard her literary achievements.


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