She loved Woody Allen movies, listened to jazz, smoked cigarettes and hated being the center of attention. No wonder that her Nobel Prize was a “Stockholm tragedy” for her. The problem was not only public appearance, but also the right wardrobe. – It was a terrible horror, because she always walked discreetly (…). Suddenly, however, she was supposed to have some brocades, long dresses, beads, peacock tails, recalled literary critic Tadeusz Nyczek in an interview with . The success didn’t go to her head and “didn’t even knock over a matchbox in the kitchen.” What was she like in private? “Modest, hard-working, she didn’t like publicity” – that’s how her friends know her. She would have turned 100 on July 2.
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“Wings of Lady Wisława” and kitschy souvenirs from friends. Szymborska was “eccentric”
Szymborska was not fond of technical innovations. Friends repeatedly emphasized that she lived modestly, but allowed herself a bit of extravagance. – She’s not a star, although she is eccentric. He loves various oddities – said Michał Rusinek in 2011. The poet’s longtime secretary recalled that she liked to collect kitschy holiday souvenirs from her friends. She also allowed herself “oddities” in the menu. – Sometimes she asks me to bring her hot wings from KFC, which later, horror of horrors, she freezes. He really appreciates this delicacy. Only my son understands her and sometimes says: Let’s go to KFC for Mrs. Wisława’s wings – said Rusinek, today the president of the foundation dedicated to the memory of the poet.
She had a picture of Golota above her bed. She stayed up at night to watch his fights
Wisława Szymborska loved Andrzej Gołota with all her heart. Sympathy for the boxer even became the subject of jokes in the company of writers who joked about a possible relationship. The Nobel Prize winner was able to stay up at night to watch her favorite fights. Apparently, for Golota, she even started watching “Dancing with the Stars”. After losing fights, phone calls were ringing from concerned friends.
– Friends even enlarged the portrait of Andrzej Gołota for her and she had this photo above her bed on vacation – said Michał Rusinek in an interview. In her apartment there was even a place for the likeness of the athlete. Rusinek also recalled that Szymborska and Gołota once almost met in person in a Warsaw restaurant. – Mrs. Wisława even wanted to go for an autograph, but I advised her against it – he betrayed, citing the boxer’s threatening bodyguards as the reason. After Szymborska’s death, Andrzej Gołota
I miss you in my corner even though you’ve never stepped in the ring.
Source: Gazeta
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