The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
Awarded on: 1996-10-03
"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"
Wisława Szymborska
Born: 1923-07-02 in Bnin (now Kórnik), Poland
Gender: female
Field: Polish poet and Nobel laureate (1923–2012)
Biography
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. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors, though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry", that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.