I don't know how I missed this news, but I haven't been listening to the radio for a while.
She was one of my favorite poets long before she won the Nobel. The day it was announced, I was waking up in a hospital ward after an operation and the first thing I asked (I kid you not) was who had won the prize in literature.
The others in the ward probably thought I had mental as well as bodily problems, of course, when I learned it was "some Polish woman, a poet" and I let out a big yippee and went back to sleep.
No one else there knew who she was, though she had even then an excellent Swedish translator.
Thank you for posting this.
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