Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska – The Polish Nobel Laureate – Blog Post #322 by Asrar Qureshi
Dear Colleagues! This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #322 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . [Quote] “Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in Prowent , Poland (now part of Kórnik , Poland), the second daughter [8] of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her father was at that time the steward of Count Władysław Zamoyski , a Polish patriot and charitable patron . After the death of Count Zamoyski in 1924, her family moved to Toruń , and in 1931 to Kraków , where she lived and worked until her death in early 2012. Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic prec...