1923 - 2012
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (Polish: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wisława Szymborska has received more than 663,818 page views. Her biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Wisława Szymborska is the 209th most popular writer (up from 233rd in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Poland (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Writer.
Wisława Szymborska is a Polish poet and essayist. She is most famous for her poem "Nothing Twice" which won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Among writers, Wisława Szymborska ranks 209 out of 5,755. Before her are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Hölderlin, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Colette. After her are Ferdowsi, Pierre Corneille, Pearl S. Buck, Adam Mickiewicz, Arthur C. Clarke, and Anna Komnene.
1902 - 1991
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 203
1842 - 1898
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 204
1770 - 1843
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 205
1846 - 1916
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 206
1928 - 2008
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 207
1873 - 1954
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 208
1923 - 2012
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 209
940 - 1020
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 210
1606 - 1684
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 211
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 212
1798 - 1855
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 213
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 214
1083 - 1153
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 215
Among people born in 1923, Wisława Szymborska ranks 7. Before her are Henry Kissinger, Maria Callas, Lee Kuan Yew, Shimon Peres, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Idi Amin. After her are Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Marcel Marceau, Irma Grese, Rocky Marciano, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among people deceased in 2012, Wisława Szymborska ranks 4. Before her are Neil Armstrong, Oscar Niemeyer, and Norodom Sihanouk. After her are Ray Bradbury, Whitney Houston, Ahmed Ben Bella, Eric Hobsbawm, Carroll Shelby, Michael Clarke Duncan, Theo Angelopoulos, and Jon Lord.
1923 - 2023
HPI: 83.32
Rank: 1
1923 - 1977
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 2
1923 - 2015
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 3
1923 - 2016
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 4
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 5
1923 - 2003
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 6
1923 - 2012
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 7
1923 - 2003
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 8
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 9
1923 - 2007
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 10
1923 - 1945
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 11
1923 - 1969
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 12
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 13
1930 - 2012
HPI: 84.89
Rank: 1
1907 - 2012
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 2
1922 - 2012
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 3
1923 - 2012
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 4
1920 - 2012
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 5
1963 - 2012
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 6
1916 - 2012
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 7
1917 - 2012
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 8
1923 - 2012
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 9
1957 - 2012
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 10
1935 - 2012
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 11
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Wisława Szymborska ranks 27 out of 1,454. Before her are Erich Ludendorff (1865), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846). After her are Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Kurt Lewin (1890), and Irena Sendler (1910).
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 21
1595 - 1648
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 22
1911 - 2000
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 23
1925 - 2017
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 24
1902 - 1991
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 25
1846 - 1916
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 26
1923 - 2012
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 27
1887 - 1982
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 28
1798 - 1855
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 29
1894 - 1941
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 30
1941 - 1996
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 31
1890 - 1947
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 32
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 33
Among writers born in Poland, Wisława Szymborska ranks 6. Before her are Günter Grass (1927), Janusz Korczak (1878), Stanisław Lem (1921), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846). After her are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Osip Mandelstam (1891).
1927 - 2015
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 1
1878 - 1942
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 2
1921 - 2006
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 3
1902 - 1991
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 4
1846 - 1916
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 5
1923 - 2012
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 6
1798 - 1855
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 7
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 9
1878 - 1957
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 10
1904 - 1969
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 11
1891 - 1938
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 12