Polish poet, essayist, critic, translator, columnist ; Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1996), founder of the Association of Polish Writers (1989), member of the Polish Academy of Arts (1995), lady of the Order of the White Eagle.
From 1929 Wisława Szymborska lived in Krakow, where she made her debut in 1945 in the pages of the “Polish Journal” with the poem I am looking for a word. In 1952, in the Publishing Cooperative “Czytelnik” published the first poetic volume Therefore, we live, in the same year she became a member of the Union of Polish Writers. From 1953 to 1966, she was the head of the poetry department of the weekly Literary Life, and then in 1967-1981 published in it the supermandatory ejachistic lily. In 1983, she collaborated with “Tever Powszechny”. From 1988, she was a member of the PEN Club, and since 2001 an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature.
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was born on the Prowment, i.e. the farm (the court district, which at that time was a separate administrative unit between Kórnik and Bnin). located south of the castle in Kórnik, at the Kórnicki Lake in Poznańsk. She was the second daughter of Wincenty Szymborski, a right-wing politician, a former vice-president of the Republic of Zakopiańska and the administrator of the estates of Count Władysław Zamoyski, and Anna Maria from the house of Rottermund (1890–1960). Szymborska’s parents moved in January 1923 from Zakopane to Kórnik, where Count Zamoyski sent Szymborski to organize the financial affairs of his local estate. After the Earl’s death in 1924, the Szymborski family lived in Toruń, and from 1929 in Krakow, in the street bought at ul. Radziwiłłowska 29th tenement house. Wisława Szymborska initially attended the General School. Józefy Joteyko at ul. Podwale 6, then from September 1935 to the Ursuline Sisters Gymnasium at ul. The Old Man 3-5.
After the outbreak of World War II, she continued her studies on secret sets, and from 1943 she began working as a voyage on the railway to avoid being taken to the Reich. During this time, for the first time, she made illustrations for the book (the manual of English First steps in English by Jan Stanisławski) and began to write short stories and rarely – poems. From 1945 she took part in the literary life of Krakow, until 1946 she belonged to the literary group "Finth". According to the poet’s memoirs, Czesław Miłosz made the greatest impression on it. In the same year, she studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University and then transferred to sociology. However, she did not finish the studies due to the difficult financial situation.
In 1953, the signatory of the Resolution of the Union of Polish Writers in Krakow on the Krakow trial supporting the death sentence in the fake trial: Edward Chachlica, Michał Kowalik and Father Józef Lelita.
In 1957 Szymborska established contacts with the Parisian Kulturą“Culture” and Jerzy Giedroycie. In 1964, she was among the signatories of a protest that the authorities delineated by the authorities condemning Radio Free Europe for the publicity of Letter 34. From 1945 to 1966, she was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). In 1975, she signed the Protest Letter 59, in which leading Polish intellectuals protested against changes in the constitution, introducing a record of the leadership role of the PZPR and an eternal alliance with the USSR, and in January 1978 signed the founding declaration of the Society of Scientific Courses.
In the first years of its existence, the Literary-Artistic Studies, held at the Jagiellonian University, she conducted poetry workshops.
She became a member of the Bronisław Komorowski support committee before the accelerated presidential elections of 2010.
In November 2011, Szymborska underwent a major operation. She died on February 1, 2012, during her sleep in her apartment at Piastowska Street in Krakow. The information about Szymborska’s death was provided by Secretary Michał Rusinek. The poet’s funeral took place on 9 February 2012. According to her will, the ashes urn was laid in the family grave in Rakowicki Cemetery (GD quatera row 10, grave number 10). The funeral was secular.