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Anna Akhmatova remains one of Russia’s most significant lyric poets. Her work offers profound insights into personal suffering and historical trauma, particularly concerning the impact of Stalinist repression. She is best known for *Requiem*, a harrowing chronicle of victims during that era. Akhmato...
Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet and playwright, World War II resistance veteran, and author of the influential collection Anxiety (1947).
Miklós Radnóti was a Hungarian poet, notable for forced-march poems recovered after his 1944 killing during the Holocaust.
Claribel Alegría was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet whose exile and Central American memory shaped books such as Sobrevivo, winner of the 1978 Casa de las Américas Prize.
Tight Spot is a 1955 American film noir by Phil Karlson, notable for Ginger Rogers as a jailed witness pressured to testify against a mobster.
