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:
A Few Words on the Soul
Poetry by Wisława Szymborska • Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
Sky
Poetry by Wisława Szymborska • Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
In Heraclitus’s River
Poetry by Wisława Szymborska • Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh