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Wisława Szymborska

1923 - 2012

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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (Polish: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she 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. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wisława Szymborska is the 174th most popular writer, the 18th most popular biography from Poland (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Writer.

Wisława Szymborska is a Polish poet and essayist. She is most famous for her poem "Nothing Twice" which won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Among writers, Wisława Szymborska ranks 174 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Pindar, Nicolas Flamel, and André Breton. After her are William Faulkner, Anna Wintour, John Milton, Charlotte Brontë, Nizami Ganjavi, and Stéphane Mallarmé.

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Among people born in 1923, Wisława Szymborska ranks 6. Before her are Henry Kissinger, Maria Callas, Lee Kuan Yew, Shimon Peres, and Philip Warren Anderson. After her are Idi Amin, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among people deceased in 2012, Wisława Szymborska ranks 2. Before her is Neil Armstrong. After her are Oscar Niemeyer, Whitney Houston, Norodom Sihanouk, Ray Bradbury, F. Sherwood Rowland, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., I. K. Gujral, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Joseph Murray, and Yitzhak Shamir.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wisława Szymborska ranks 18 out of 1,694. Before her are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686). After her are Fritz Haber (1868), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Otto Stern (1888), Wernher von Braun (1912), and Janusz Korczak (1878).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Wisława Szymborska ranks 3. Before her are Günter Grass (1927), and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846). After her are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).

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