The scene, made up of 21,000 bricks and displayed in Szymborska’s home city of Kraków, depicts the moment she was awarded the 1996 prize.
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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk returns to hero’s welcome in Poland
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been feted back in her native Poland, where she attended the Conrad Festival of literature in Kraków.
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Poland’s forgotten Nobel winner who wrote “Animal Farm” before Orwell
Filip Mazurczak
Twenty years before Orwell published “Animal Farm”, a now-forgotten Polish Nobel laureate wrote a remarkably similar novel.