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Wisława Szymborska

Author · born July 2, 1923 · died 2012

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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, she resided in Kraków until the end of her life.

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  1. ~68Received the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt1991
  2. ~73Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1996

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