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.