TWA Poets: Wislawa Szymborska

1923 - 2012

It’s the birthday of Wislawa Szymborska, born in Poland (1923). When she won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1996, few people outside of Poland had ever heard of her. Her first poems were published in the Krakov newspaper, and for almost 20 years she edited a weekly column for the journal Literary Life, for which she also wrote scores of book reviews, …