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Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin, Poland, in 1923, and has lived in Krakow since 1931. She studied at Krakow University and worked at Zycie Literackie, the literary journal, as poetry editor and columnist from 1950 to 1981. She has published many collections of poetry, and has been awarded the Goethe Prize (1991), the Herder Prize (1995), the Polish PEN…