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Anna Świrszczyńska (also known as Anna Swir) (1909–1984) was a Polish poet whose works deal with themes including her experiences during World War II, motherhood, the female body, and sensuality.

Anna Świrszczyńska
Born1909
Warsaw, Poland
Died1984 (aged 74–75)
Kraków, Poland
Pen nameAnna Swir
OccupationPoet
NationalityPolish
Notable worksHappy as a Dog's Tail
Talking to My Body
Fat Like the Sun
Notable awardsKnight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1957

Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1975

City of Kraków Award, 1976


Biography


Świrszczyńska was born in Warsaw and grew up in poverty as the daughter of an artist.[1] She began publishing her poems in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation of Poland she joined the Polish resistance movement in World War II and was a military nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. She wrote for underground publications and once waited 60 minutes to be executed. Czesław Miłosz writes of knowing her during this time and has translated a volume of her work.[2] Her experiences during the war strongly influenced her poetry. In 1974 she published Building the Barricade, a volume which describes the suffering she witnessed and experienced during that time. She also writes frankly about the female body in various stages of life.[3]

Some of Swir's poems are translated into Nepali by Suman Pokhrel and are collected in an anthology tilled Manpareka Kehi Kavita.[4][5][6][7] Siddheshwar Singh, Manoj Patel and other translators have translated many of her poems into Hindi.[8][9] Nine of Swir's poems were posthumously published by family, earlier translated in Dutch by Gerard Rasch, in his work Memento in 2005. Hendrik Lindepuu translated a collection of poems by Świrszczyńska into Estonian and published it as a separate book: Anna Świrszczyńska. Ma ehitasin barrikaadi. Halliste: Hendrik Lindepuu Kirjastus, 2019. 187 pages. ISBN 9789949736119.

The Spanish composer Luis de Pablo premiered in 2019 the Cantata femenina Anna Swir (Female Cantata Anna Swir), based on several poems by this author.[10]


Works


You will not tame this sea
either by humility or rapture.
But you can laugh
in its face.

The Sea and the Man [11]
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan


Poetry collections



Collections in English translation



See also



References


  1. "Anna Świrszczyńska - biografia, wiersze, utwory". poezja.org (in Polish). Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  2. Miłosz, Czesław – Jakiegoż to gościa mieliśmy : o Annie Świrszczyńskiej (1996), Kraków "Znak"
  3. Swir, Anna.Talking to my Body.Trans. Czesław Miłosz & Leonard Nathan. Copper Canyon Press, 1996.
  4. Akhmatova, Anna; Świrszczyńska, Anna; Ginsberg, Allen; Agustini, Delmira; Farrokhzad, Forough; Mistral, Gabriela; Jacques, Jacques; Mahmoud, Mahmoud; Al-Malaika, Nazik; Hikmet, Nazim; Qabbani, Nizar; Paz, Octavio; Neruda, Pablo; Plath, Sylvia; Amichai, Yehuda (2018). Manpareka Kehi Kavita मनपरेका केही कविता [Some Poems of My Choice] (Print) (in Nepali). Translated by Pokhrel, Suman (First ed.). Kathmandu: Shikha Books. p. 174.
  5. "Suman Pokhrel's Blog: सुमन पोखरेल Suman Pokhrel - म र मेरो म (Nepali translation of Anna Swir's poem "Myself and My Person") - August 14, 2011 20:12".
  6. "Suman Pokhrel's Blog: सुमन पोखरेल Suman Pokhrel - भित्तामा टाउको बजारेँ मैले (Nepali translation of Anna Swir's poem "I Knocked My Head against the Wall") - November 05, 2012 11:09".
  7. Tripathi, Geeta (2018). अनुवादमा 'मनपरेका केही कविता' [Manpareka Kehi Kavita in Translation]. Kalashree. pp. 358–359.
  8. "अन्ना स्विर : समुद्र तट पर शरीर और आत्मा". August 22, 2012.
  9. "कर्मनाशा: समुद्र , हँसी और किताबों का स्पन्दन : अन्ना स्विर".
  10. Tomas Marco: [Notes to the program], Community of Madrid Orchestra, February 13, 2019.
  11. A Book of Luminous Things Edited by Czeslaw Milosz, 1996.

Further reading





На других языках

- [en] Anna Świrszczyńska

[es] Anna Świrszczyńska

Anna Świrszczyńska (Varsovia, 7 de febrero de 1909 - Cracovia, 30 de septiembre de 1984) fue una poeta polaca. Su apellido en algunas ediciones fuera de Polonia se ha simplificado a Swir.[1][2] La obra de Świrszczyńska aborda temáticas muy variadas, incluidas las referencias autobiográficas a sus experiencias durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la maternidad, el cuerpo femenino y la sensualidad.

[fr] Anna Świrszczyńska

Anna Świrszczyńska (née le 7 février 1909 à Varsovie et morte le 30 septembre 1984 à Cracovie) était une poétesse polonaise dont les œuvres touchent une grande variété de thèmes, parmi lesquels son expérience durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la maternité, le corps féminin ou encore la sensualité.

[ru] Свирщинская, Анна

Анна Свирщинская (польск. Anna Świrszczyńska, 7 февраля 1909, Варшава, Российская империя — 30 сентября 1984, Краков) — польская поэтесса, писательница , переводчик, автор книг для детей.


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