Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska-Włodek, Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She was the recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Szymborska was born in Prowent. She died on 1 February 2012 at home in Kraków from natural causes, aged 88.