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 • Apr. 14, 2025

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

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

As Wisława Szymborska, the Nobel Prize-winner born in Poland in 1923, wrote: "After every war / someone's got to tidy up."

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2022

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