Biography of Wislawa Szymborska, recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Bnin, Poland to Anna Rottermund and Wincenty Szymborski.
BIOGRAPHY
Wislawa Szymborska, recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Bnin, Poland to Anna Rottermund and Wincenty Szymborski. Her father died when she was thirteen. In order to avoid tranportation to a labor camp in Germany she worked for a railroad company as a official. She was educated at the Jagiellonian University where she studied Polish literature and sociology.
Her literary debut was made with the poem "I Seek the Word," and her first volume of poetry, DLAGTEGO ZYJEMY, was published in 1952. She has since repudiated the work she produced between 1953 and 1954 because it was subjected to Communist censorship. During that time she was also writing a review column for the weekly ZYCIE LITERACKIE. She contributed to the underground publications ARKA and KULTURA. One of the few women to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Szymborska has published 16 collections of poetry.
CHRONOLOGY
1923 She was born in Bnin, Poland.
1926 She moved with her family to Torun.
1931 She moved to Krakow.
1936 Her father died.
1943 She worked for a railroad company.
1945 She began studying at the Jagiellonian University.
1952 DLAGTEGO ZYJEMY; She became a member of the Polish Writers' Union.; She joined the part PZPR.
1953 She began working for the weekly ZYCIE LITERACKIE.
1954 PYTANIA ZADAWANR SOBIE
1957 WOLANIE DO YETI
1962 SOL
1964 WIERSZE WYBRANE; She received the Jurczykowski's Foundation Prize.
1966 WIDOK Z ZIARNKIEM PIASKU. 102 WIERZE
1967 STO POCIECH, POEZJE WYBRANE
1970 POEZJE
1972 WXZELKI WYPADEK
1973 WYBOR WIERSZY, LEKTURY NADOBOWIAZKOWE
1976 WIELKA LICZBA, TARSJUSZ I INNE WIERSZE
1981 She became a member of the editorial staff of the magazine PIZMO.
1983 POEZJE WYBRANE II
1986 LUDZIE NA MOSCIE
1988 She helped initiate the Polish Writers' Association.
1990 She was awarded Kalenbach's Foundation Prize.
1991 She was awarded the Goethe prize.
1993 KONIEC I POCZA, TEK
1995 She was awarded the Herder prize.
1996 She received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1998 POEMS NEW AND COLLECTED 1957-1997
