biography
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Szymborska, Wislawa
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pronunciation:
[simbaw(r)ska]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| ( 1923– )
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Bnin (now part of Kornik), WC Poland. She moved to Kraków in 1931, where she studied literature and sociology at the Jagiellonian University (1945–8), and then worked for a Polish literary magazine (1953–81). Her first collections of poetry appeared in 1952 and 1954, but were subject to the censorship of the era, and she now recognizes only her work published after 1957. English-language collections include People on a Bridge (1990), View with a Grain of Sand (1995), Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts (1996), and Poems, New and Collected (1998). She is also known for her translations from French poetry. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. |
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