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Wislawa Szymborska

(born July 2, 1923, Bnin, Pol.) Polish poet. From 1953 to 1981 Szymborska was on the staff of the weekly Zycie Literackie ("Literary Life"), gaining a reputation as a poet, book reviewer, and translator of French poetry. Her first two volumes of poetry were attempts to conform to Socialist Realism. Later poems, notable for their precise and concrete language and ironic detachment, express her dissatisfaction with communism and explore philosophical, moral, and ethical issues. A selection of her poems was published in English translation as View with a Grain of Sand (1995). She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.

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