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Wisława Szymborska  (2 July 1923 – 1 February  2012)  was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 - “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality,” the Nobel commission  called her “the Mozart of poetry” — but, wary of robbing her poetry of its remarkable dimension, added that it also emanates “something of the fury of Beethoven.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTwrTtqZC1s
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Dir. Griffin Dunne, USA, 2017, 92m World Premiere
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Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself. This is most certainly a film about loss—the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child—but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding. A Netflix Original presently showing at Curzon Bloomsbury.