Sophie Podolski

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name =Sophie Podolski


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birth_date =1953
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death_date = December 23, 1974
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known_for = The book "Le pays où tout est permis"
occupation = Poet and Graphic artist
nationality = Belgian

Sophie Podolski (1953 – December 23, 1974) was a Belgian poet and graphic artist. She published only one book during her short lifetime, "Le pays où tout est permis" ("The Country Where Everything Is Permitted"), in which the poems were reproduced in her own artistic handwriting. Podolski, studied graphic design at the Académie de Boitsfort and was associated with the artistic community at Montfaucon Research Center. ["Dictionnaire litteraire des femmes de langue francaise: De Marie de France a Marie NDiaye" by Christiane P. Makward, pp. 474-76.] Podolski suffered from depression and spent time in psychiatric clinics in Paris and Brussels. She committed suicide in Brussels.

Podolski left a number of unpublished poems and graphic artworks. Her work entitled "Snow Queen" was posthumously published as a special edition of "Revue Luna-Park in 1980". Her poetry was much admired by the novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, who referenced Podolski in his novel "The Savage Detectives" and in his short story "Dance Card.” ["The Great Belaño," Francisco Goldman, "New York Review of Books", Volume 54, Number 12, July 19, 2007.]

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