Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923, in Bnin, a small town in western Poland. Her family moved to Krakow in 1931 where she lived most of her life. She studied Polish literature and sociology at Jagellonian University from 1945 until 1948. During her lifetime, Szymborska authored nearly twenty books of poetry. Her collections available in English include Monologue of a Dog (Harcourt, 2005); Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wisława Szymborska (W. W. Norton, 2001); Poems, New and Collected, 1957–1997 (Harcourt, 1998); View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (Harcourt, 1995); People on a Bridge (Forest Books, 1990); and Sounds, Feelings Thoughts: Seventy Poems (Princeton University Press, 1981). She is also the author of Nonrequired Reading (Harcourt, 2002), a collection of prose pieces. (Source)