Czesław Miłosz calling with congratulations and expressions of sympathy, jokes about a plane hijacking, and a Swedish embargo on photos with the king. When the Swedish Academy announced its verdict 30 years ago awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to a Pole, Wisława Szymborska simply wanted to finish writing a poem in a Zakopane guesthouse. Instead, she had to face a media tsunami.
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Czesław Miłosz calling with congratulations and expressions of sympathy, jokes about a plane hijacking, and a Swedish embargo on photos with the king. When the Swedish Academy announced its verdict 30 years ago awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to a Pole, Wisława Szymborska simply wanted to finish writing a poem in a Zakopane guesthouse. Instead, she had to face a media tsunami.