Astonishment | Critical Overview
When Szymborska was informed on October 3, 1996, that she had won the Nobel Prize for literature, she said that the world “came crashing down on me.” Until then, the shy and retiring Szymborska was a well regarded poet who had a loyal following in Poland but who was virtually unknown outside her own country. Almost everyone—in Poland and abroad—was surprised that one of the world’s highest literary honors was going to a woman whose poetic output was so small (she had published only around two hundred poems over her career) and who did not have an impressive international...
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