Poet;
Born July 2 1923 ; Died February 1 2012
Wislawa Szymborska, who has died aged 88 in her sleep, was a Polish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996.
The award committee's citation called her the "Mozart of poetry", a woman who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven".
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Wislawa Szymborska
Poet;
Born July 2 1923 ; Died February 1 2012
Wislawa Szymborska, who has died aged 88 in her sleep, was a Polish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996.
The award committee's citation called her the "Mozart of poetry", a woman who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven".
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