Zbigniew Herbert

(1924 -1998) was a leading poet of twentieth-century Poland and an unyielding critic of communism. His writings have been translated into almost every European language. Herbert won many Polish and foreign literary awards, including the Koscielski Prize(1963), the Austrian Nikolaus Lenau Preis (1965), the Herder Prize (1973), and the Jerusalem Prize (1990).

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Books
Elegy for the Departure : And Other Poems
Still Life With a Bridle : Essays and Apocryphas
Barbarian in the Garden
Report from the Besieged City
Mr. Cogito
King of the Ants : Mythological Essays

A Fugitive from Utopia : The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert by Stanislaw Baranczak, Stanisoaw Baracnczak

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