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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...
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  • The Wisława Szymborska Award is a Polish annual international literature prize presented by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. It was established in 2013...
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  • Apartment (Polish: Kot w pustym mieszkaniu) is a poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska. It was written after the death of her partner, the Polish writer...
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    The 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical...
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    Restituta. Wisława Szymborska and Leopold Staff wrote poems in her praise. Several schools in Poland are named after her. Szymborska, Wislawa (1989). "A...
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  • affiliated with the university, all in literature: Ivo Andrić and Wisława Szymborska, who studied there, and Czesław Miłosz and Olga Tokarczuk, who taught...
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  • numerous English translations of Polish poems, including works of Wisława Szymborska, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Bolesław Prus, Jan Brzechwa...
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  • Nobel Prize laureates in literature, of which Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska were poets. Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942) Adam Asnyk (1838–1897)...
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    Milan Kundera, Thomas Bernhard, Günter Grass, Nikos Kazantzakis, Wisława Szymborska, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Czesław Miłosz. Having published the theatrical...
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  • editor, and translator. He was married to Polish Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska between 1948 and 1954. He published 10 books, mostly collections of...
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