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Wisława Szymborska

1923 - 2012

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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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  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Poland

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).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

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).

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