Nobel laureate: Wisława Szymborska
Born: 1923-07-02, Bnin (now Kórnik), Poland
Died: 2012-02-01, Kraków, Poland
Gender: female
Prizes:
year: 1996
category: literature
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motivation: "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"