Szymborska

American  

[sim-bawrs-kah] / sɪmˈbɔrs kɑ /

noun

1. Wislawa 1923–2012, Polish poet: Nobel Prize 1996.

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Szymborska British  

/ ʃɪmˈbɔrskə /

noun

1. Wisława (vɪˈswavə). 1923–2012, Polish poet and writer: Nobel prize for literature 1996

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Example Sentences

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

And he knew I’d been translating Wislawa Szymborska with his longtime friend, the great poet and translator Stanislaw Barańczak.

From Washington Post

Szymborska’s “Funeral” consists of seemingly random fragments apparently overheard in a churchyard or cemetery.

From Washington Post

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

But Alissa also draws heavily from a range of other works, from Homer’s “Iliad” to poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish.

From New York Times