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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska [1] [2] (Polish: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Well-known in her native Poland, Wisława Szymborska received international recognition when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. In awarding the prize, the Academy praised her “poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”
The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here. with branches disentangled since time immemorial. The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple, sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It. The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista: the Valley of Obviously. If any doubts arise, the wind dispels them instantly.
Wisława Szymborska (born July 2, 1923, Bnin [now part of Kórnik], Poland—died February 1, 2012, Kraków) was a Polish poet whose intelligent and empathic explorations of philosophical, moral, and ethical issues won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
Wisława Szymborska is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995). She has a degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters of Poznan University (1995). In 1996 she received the Polish PEN Club prize.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 was awarded to Wisława Szymborska "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"
Wisława Szymborska was known throughout the world through her poetry, was referred to as the 'Mozart of poetry' by the Nobel committee who gave her the prize in 1996.
Wisława Szymborska – born 2 July 1923 in Kórnik, Poznań province; died 1 February 2012 in Kraków. From 1931 she lived in Kraków, and between 1945-48 she studied Polish. Literature and Sociology at the Jagiellonian University.
Wislawa Szymborska - Wislawa Szymborska was a Polish poet whose work was widely translated into English. In 1996, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wisława Szymborska, właśc. Maria Wisława Szymborska-Włodek (ur. 2 lipca 1923 na Prowencie, obecnie część Kórnika, zm. 1 lutego 2012 w Krakowie) – polska poetka, eseistka, krytyczka, tłumaczka, felietonistka; laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury (1996), dama Orderu Orła Białego.
