Nobel Prize Winners from Poland

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FROM POLAND هنريك شنكوفيتش (Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916 تشيسواف ميووش (Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004 فﻻديسﻻف رايمونت (Władysław Reymont (1867-1925 هنريك شنكوفيتش (Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916 Poland’s first Nobel Prize winner in literature is Reymont’s first novel, The Comedienne A poet, essayist, translator, and literary An international favorite, even among remembered best outside of Poland as the (1896), recounts the hardship and historian, Miłosz won the 1980 Nobel Prize readers who may not otherwise read author of Quo Vadis (1896), a widely translated poverty encountered by an itinerant as a writer “who with uncompromising poetry in their own language, acclaimed international bestseller for decades after its theater troupe, inspired by the author’s clearsightedness voices man’s exposed for her complex, ironic, publication a historical tale set during early own experience in such an ensemble. condition in a world of severe conflicts.” Born and sophisticated insight rendered with Christianity, the end of Nero’s rule, the age of He is most remembered for his tale of of Polish parents in multi-ethnic Lithuania, he simplicity, humor, and economy of line. the gladiators, international capitalism gone wild, began to garner recognition as a poet while She lived a quiet life in Kraków among and the burning of Rome. The Promised Land (1899), set in the studying law in 1930. Exiled in Paris after a small circle of writers and scholars. His most celebrated works are historical novels cultural crossroads and manufacturing a stint in the foreign service, he wrote The Charles Simic wrote “Extremely smart, central to the canon of the movement known as hub of Łódź in central Poland, and for his Captive Mind (1953), his study of the “mental witty, and levelheaded, she seduces “Positivism” in late 19th-century Polish fiction. tmonumental study of Polish village life acrobatics” of Polish writers who conformed us by her wide range of interests, her The Positivists saw themselves as politically in four volumes, The Peasants (1904- to Stalinist dogma. In 1960 Milosz began atypical lack of narcissism for a poet, progressive realists, in opposition to the 09), which earned him the Nobel Prize teaching at UC Berkeley, covering subjects and her cheerful pessimism.” Famously Romantics of the first half of the century, in 1924. ranging from Dostoevsky to Manicheanism. averse to travel and publicity her friends but Sienkiewicz’s fictionalization of history is Influenced by European naturalism, he A volume of his poetry was firtst published in refer to her 1996 victory as “the Nobel not without a degree of sentimentality. is regarded as a figure between Polish English in 1973, sparking his renown in the disaster,” because she so eschewed the Sienkiewicz’s narrative gift for adventure and attention to realistic detail was Positivism and the early 20th-century US as a poet and not just a political essayist. public eye. honed during his years as a journalist, during which he traveled through the modernist movement known as “Young Milosz returned to Poland in the summer of 1981 for the first time in 30 Szymborska’s appeal came from her poetry alone and from her marvelous United States, spending two years in California. In Poland he is most known for Poland,” which could be seen as an years - to a country spiritually liberated by the Solidarity movement - and was ability to speak with intimacy to a broad audience, as if each reader were his Trilogy set in Poland’s wars with the Cossacks (With Fire and Sword, 1884), analogue to symbolism or expressionism in France and Germany, respectively. welcomed as a national hero. sitting in her living room, sharing a cup of tea. the Swedes (The Deluge, 1886), and the Turks (Pan Michael, 1887-88), and his late novel The Teutonic Knights (1900), set in the fifteenth century before the events described in the Trilogy. In English: In English: Selected and Last poems 1931 2004 Penguin Classics 2014. Map: Collected and Last Poems ISBN 978-0141392301 Tr. Clare Cavanagh, Stanisław Barańczak. In English: The Captive Mind Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015. ISBN 9780544126022 In English: The Comedienne Tr. Jane Zielonko. Penguin Books 2010. ISBN 978-0141186764 Nonrequired Reading Quo vadis: a Tale of The Time of Nero Tr. Edmund Obecny. Onesuch Press 2011. ISBN 978-0987153241 Proud to be a Mammal Tr. Clare Cavanagh. Harcourt 2002. ISBN 978-0151006601 Tr. Jeremiah Curtin. Dover Publications, 2011. ISBN 9780486476865 Penguin Classics 2010. ISBN 978-0141193199 In Desert and Wilderness Legends of Modernity Tr. Max A. Drezmal, Ed. Miroslaw Lipinski, Hippocrene Books 1994. ISBN 0781802350 Tr. Madeline Levine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006. ISBN 978-0374530464 The Knights of the Cross To Begin Where I Am Tr. Samuel A. Binion. Echo Library 2005. ISBN 978-184637742 The Trilogy (Trylogia) Tr. Madeline Levine, Bogdana Carpenter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0374528591 With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, Pan Michael (Sir Michael) Native Realmt Tr. Jerimiah Curtin. Kindle Edition. Business and Leadership Publishing 2015. ASIN B016SS6MPE Tr. Catherine S. Leach. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0374528300 Milosz’s ABC’s Tr. Madeline Levine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0374527952 بالعربية A Treatise on Poetry بالعربية أفيسوافا شيمبورسكا: شاعرة نوبل ١٩٩٦/ دراسة واختيار دوروتا سامولينسكا متويل; ترجمة هناء عبد الفتاح Tr. Robert Hass. The Ecco Press 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0060185244 هذه هي حياتهم: رواية/ فالديسالف ستانيسالف راميونت; ترجمة كربو لحدو .ترجمة هناء عبد الفتاح، دراسة واختيار دوروتا سامولينسكا متويل، مقدمة أحمد عبد املعطي حجازي. املجلس األعىل للثقافة، القاهرة ١٩٩٦ The Issa Valley كربو لحدو. دار الحصاد للطباعة والنرش، دمشق ٢٠٠٤ الشاعر والعامل: أشعار مختارة اختارها وترجمها وقدم لها هاتف الجنايب Tr. Louis Iribarne. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000. ISBN 978-0374516956 The Land of Ulro .هاتف الجنايب. دار املدى للثقافة والنرش، دمشق ١٩٩٧ Tr. Louis Iribarne. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000. ISBN-13: 978-0374519377 .النهاية والبداية وقصائد أخرى; ترجمة هاتف الجنايب Road side Dog بالعربية هاتف الجنايب. دار املدى للثقافة والنرش، دمشق ٢٠٠٢ Tr. Robert Hass. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999. ISBN 0374251290 كوفاديس معال نافع معال دار املدى للثقافة والنرش، بريوت ٢٠١٦ بالعربية أشعار مختارة من دواوينه .هناء عبد الفتاح، دوروتا سامولينسكا متويل. هيئة أبو ظبي للثقافة والرتاث، كلمة، الدار املرصية اللبنانية، أبو ظبي، القاهرة ٢٠٠٩ مديح الطائر هاتف الجنايب. دار املدى للثقافة والنرش، دمشق ٢٠٠١ .

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