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Wislawa Szymborska

Russian and Slavic Literature

Wislawa Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, born in 1923 near Kornik and died in 2012 in Krakow. She received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy citing poetry that, "with ironic precision, allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality." Known for a spare, deceptively simple style that examines everyday subjects, chance and the limits of human knowledge with wit and philosophical depth, Szymborska published relatively few poems by the standards of a major poet but saw them translated into numerous languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian and Chinese, following her Nobel recognition.

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Birth Year
1923 1
Birth Date
1923-07-02 1
Death Year
2012 1
Death Date
2012-02-01 1
Award
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1996, awarded "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality". 1
Classification
Original Language
Polish 1
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1. Wisława Szymborska (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia lead sentence, opening parenthetical birth-death dates
    2 July 1923-1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • Wikipedia lead section, second paragraph, Nobel Prize sentence
    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".
  • Original language statement
    Wislawa Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, born in 1923 near Kornik and died in 2012 in Krakow.
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