Wislawa Szymborska
(1923-2012)
Polish poet and Nobel laureate
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later 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.
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2 July 1923 Bnin, Kornik, Poland
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1 February 2012 (aged 88) Kraków, Poland
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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