Poet Szymborska 'crime thriller' published
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
09.05.2013 11:19
A crime thriller by the late Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska went on sale in Poland on Wednesday as part of a collection of early work.
Press materials: Agora
The Flash of the Revolver (Blysk Rewolwru) is believed to be the author's first foray into prose-writing.
The manuscript was discovered in Szymborska's Krakow flat by her secretary Michal Rusinek, shortly after the poet died in February 2012.
Rusinek told radio station RMF FM at the time that the tale was like “a sort of early Agatha Christie.”
Szymborska penned the work when she was still a schoolgirl, and the discovery of the manuscript took the literary world by surprise.
An introduction to the book has been prepared by poet and academic Dr Bronislaw Maj.
Besides the short story, early verses by the poet can also be savoured.
Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, left her entire archives under the care of a posthumous foundation, funding an annual pair of prizes.
The poet is one of four Poles to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature to date, alongside Henryk Sienkiewicz, Wladyslaw Reymont and Czeslaw Milosz. (nh)