Wisława Szymborska used socialist themes in her early work, as seen in her debut collection Dlatego żyjemy (That is What We are Living For), and became a member of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party. Her first book was to be published in 1949, but it did not pass Communist censorship requirements. She worked as a secretary and illustrator for an educational biweekly magazine.
That same year, she married Adam WÅ‚odek, also a poet the couple divorced in 1954. In 1948, she was forced to quit her studies without a degree due to financial problems. Her poems continued to be published in various newspapers and periodicals for a number of years. She published her first poem "Szukam sÅ‚owa" (Looking for Words) in the daily newspaper Dziennik Polski in 1945. In 1945, she began studying Polish literature before switching to sociology at the Jagiellonian University. She began writing stories and occasional poems. During this time her career as an artist began with illustrations for an English-language textbook. From 1943, she was employed as a worker on the railroad and thus managed to avoid deportation to Germany for forced labor. At the outbreak of World War II, she continued her education in underground classes. In 1931, her family moved to Kraków, where WisÅ‚awa lived and worked for the rest of her life. WisÅ‚awa Szymborska was born in a small town in western Poland. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from View with a Grain of Sand … ( more) She died of lung cancer on Februat the age of 88. From 1953 to 1981, she worked as a poetry editor and columnist for the literary weekly Literary Life, where she wrote a column called Non-Required Reading. She won the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1996 and was awarded The Order of the White Eagle in recognition of her contribution to her country's culture in 2011. In 1991 she won the Goethe Prize and in 1995 she was awarded the Herder Prize. Her other volumes of poetry include View with a Grain of Sand, People on a Bridge, Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems, and Here. Her first book of poetry was published in 1952. In 1945, she published her first poem, I Am Looking for a Word, in a weekly supplement to the local newspaper. After World War II, she resumed her formal studies in Polish literature and sociology at Jagiellonian University, but never earned a degree. In her free time, she studied at illegal underground universities. After the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939, she found work as a railway clerk to avoid deportation to Germany as a forced laborer.
Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin, Poland on July 2, 1923.
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