Ballpoint pen
- ID-nummer
- 2021.006.001
- Titel
- Ballpoint pen
- Objektkategori
- Souvenirer
- Publik beskrivning
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This ballpoint pen was an important tool in Wisława Szymborska’s literary output. She would write the first draft of a poem on a typewriter based on notes she had jotted down. Szymborska then made handwritten corrections on the typed manuscript with an ordinary plastic BIC ballpoint pen, always in black ink. These corrections could include added words and arrows. Sometimes, she cut up the sheets of paper with scissors and pasted the pieces back together in a new order. Only then was her secretary allowed to type out a fair copy of the poem on the computer to be presented to the world.
The pen was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation in 2021. - Location
- Permanent exhibition
- Pristagare
- Wislawa Szymborska
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