Wisława Szymborska

Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (Polish: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors, though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry" ("Niektórzy lubią poezję"), that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.

Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality". She became better known internationally as a result. Her work has been translated into many European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian and Chinese.

Notable works: Cat in an Empty Apartment Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Herder Prize, Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic), Golden Medal for Merit to Culture, Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt, Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize, Kościelski Award, honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Gold Cross of Merit‎ Education: Jagiellonian University

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