For the amount “Wolves” Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar acquired the Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński “Orfeusz” Award. Picture: Beata Zawrzel/REPORTER
- The jury appreciated the truth that Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar’s poetry “grabs you by the throat and the guts”, and described her poems as “the house of human historical past”.
- The writer admitted that the tales she describes are primarily about ladies’s struggling. – Males died in battle or returned mutilated and silent. When there’s a battle, ladies have to prepare their lives at a primary degree – she mentioned.
The competitors organizers – the KI Gałczyński Museum in Pranie and the Pranie Leśniczówka Affiliation – award Orfeusz “for excellent achievements in up to date Polish lyric poetry – authentic, retaining directness of expression, uncompromising in creative phrases”.
“Wolves” was acknowledged as the very best poetry quantity of 2023, and the jury appreciated the truth that Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar’s poetry “grabs you by the throat and the guts”, and described her poems as “the house of human historical past”.
Tales from Masuria
Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar revealed that she heard the tales she included in her poetry assortment throughout her doctoral analysis. “I heard these tales a very long time in the past and so they have been so shifting, generally drastic, that they sunk very deeply into me and I knew that I might return to them sometime. I heard them about 25 years in the past,” she revealed.
– Whereas engaged on my doctorate, I collected data from residents of two villages in Masuria. I lived there as a researcher and had quite a lot of time for conversations – she added.
Ladies’s struggling
The time through which the described tales happened was characterised by struggling. – It was largely a world of ladies’s struggling. Males died in battle or returned mutilated and silent. When there’s a battle, ladies have to prepare their lives at a primary degree – mentioned Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar.
– When the battle ends, you additionally must construct a brand new actuality. It’s a must to dwell in different individuals’s houses – she famous.
Household tales
Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar was additionally born in Masuria. Nonetheless, her household didn’t have such stunning tales as these she introduced in her quantity of poetry. – My grandfather generally introduced varied tales, however most frequently associated to the interval earlier than the battle. He spoke of Masuria then: “there in Poland”. He himself got here right here in 1946. Masuria was by no means his homeland – she confessed.
Nonetheless, the post-German historical past of Masuria was seen in Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar’s youth. – The primary robust picture from my childhood that I bear in mind is the door from my grandparents’ post-German home. It had a steel strip with the inscription “Brieffe”, or letters. I learn it as a baby and I did not know what it was – she recalled.
Hear 15:59 _PR2 (mp3) 2024_07_25-17-33-14.mp3 Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar about her poetry (I Select Two)
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Title of this system: I select Two
Hosted by: Jakub Kukla
Visitor: Marzanna Bogumila Kielar
Air Date: 23.07.2024
Broadcast time: 17.30
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