According to her manager Michal Rusinek, Ms. Szymborska passed away “peacefully, sleeping” on February 1, 2012.
The polish poet received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 as the fifth Polish or Polish-born writer to have done so since the prize was created in 1901.
The Nobel Committee of the time called her the “Mozart of poetry” who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven.”
Wislawa Szymborska with her Nobel Prize medal in 1996
Ms. Szymborska was honored with Poland's highest distinction, The Order of the White Eagle, in recognition of her contribution to her country's culture in 2011.
Wislawa Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923 in the village of Bnin in Poland. By the time she was eight years old she was living in Krakow, the city she chose to stay in for the rest of her life.
In 1945 she published her first poem called "I am Looking for a Word" in a Polish daily newspaper.
Szymborska authored over a dozen collections of poetry and also translated the works of others from French.
---Wislawa Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923, near Poznan, in western Poland. When she was 8, her family moved to Krakow. During the Nazi occupation, she went to a clandestine school, risking German punishment, and later studied literature and sociology at the prestigious Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Her marriage to the poet Adam Wlodek ended in divorce. Her companion, the writer Kornel Filipowicz, died in 1990. She had no children, and no immediate family members survive.
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