This book is a comprehensive biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Wisława Szymborska. It covers her life from her early childhood in Kórnik, Poland, to her death in 2012. It examines her personal life, her relationships
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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.