Nobel laureate
Wisława Szymborska — Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
“for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”
Prize motivation
“for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”
The Swedish Academy awarded Wisława Szymborska the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.
Other laureates of the 1990s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).