Wisława Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska was born in Kórnik, Poland in 1923. She studied at Krakow University and worked at Zycie Literackie, the literary journal, as poetry editor and columnist from 1950 to 1981. She published many collections of poetry in her lifetime and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. She died in 2012.