# Wisława Szymborska

> She won the Nobel for poetry that made "the historical and biological context come to light in fragments of human reality" - ironic precision in a country where her books sold like novels, even as she wrote that maybe two in a thousand people actually like poetry.

*Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1923-2012)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/wislawa-szymborska

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Poland
- **Born:** 1923-07-02
- **Died:** 2012-02-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born in Prowent in 1923, Wisława Szymborska spent her life in Kraków, writing poems, essays, and translations that barely left Poland's borders until 1996. That year the Nobel Prize in Literature arrived, cited for work that used ironic precision to illuminate fragments of human reality through historical and biological context. The award pushed her into international view; her poems soon appeared in Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Chinese, and across Europe. In Poland, where she'd already been selling books at a pace that rivaled prose writers, she had quietly written "Some Like Poetry," noting that perhaps two in a thousand people actually do. She died in Kraków in 2012.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 65.8
- **Momentum:** 3.0

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1671821/ (@nm1671821)

## Topics
#Writers, #Poetry, #Literature, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2012** - Died
- **2011** - Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)
- **2005** - Golden Medal for Merit to Culture
- **1996** - Nobel Prize in Literature
- **1995** - Honorary Doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- **1991** - Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
- **1990** - Kościelski Award
- **1955** - Gold Cross of Merit
- **1954** - City of Kraków Award
- **1923** - Born

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- [Wisława Szymborska](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska)
- [Wisława Szymborska](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska)
- [ヴィスワヴァ・シンボルスカ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB)
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- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska)
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- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Wis%C5%82awa%20Szymborska)
- [Вислава Шимборска](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0)
- [Віслава Шымборска](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A8%D1%8B%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0)
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