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Wisława Szymborska
Portrait of Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), born in Bnin, Poland, was the author of over fifteen books of poetry and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. Her Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wisława Szymborska was published by W. W. Norton & Co in 2001. She died in February 2012 in Krakow.

Szymborska’s A Large Number was reviewed in AGNI 52 (fall 2000) by Adam Zagajewski.

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Sky
by Wisława Szymborska
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
AGNI 39 Print Only
Poetry
In Heraclitus’s River
by Wisława Szymborska
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
AGNI 38 Print Only
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