Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012), born in Kórnik, near Poznań, lived in Kraków from 1931. After taking her school-leaving examination in 1941 in clandestine education, she studied Polish literature and sociology at the Jagiellonian University from 1945 to 1948 and made her debut in March 1945 in a supplement of the Dziennik Polski. From 1953 to 1981 she worked at the weekly Życie Literackie, where she ran the poetry section and a column on reading. A translator of French baroque poetry, she received the Nobel Prize in 1996 and died in Kraków on 1 February 2012.

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• PoetryWszelki wypadekWisława Szymborska · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature