Szymborska
Americannoun
noun
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Wisława Szymborska, the Polish poet, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
Back then it was dedicated to the memory of the very poet I’d been translating when we met, his friend Wislawa Szymborska.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023
But recently, with the war in Ukraine and the refugees in Eastern Europe in mind, I have also been plunging into the work of the Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022
It has published articles and literary works by Catholic and liberal intellectuals, including Nobel Prize-winning poets Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz.
From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2021
Sometimes Roza was locked out all night, and she was forced to camp out on the lumpy lounge couches, a poem by Wislawa Szymborska beating in her head: Four a.m., no one feels fine.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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