2013: Błysk rewolwru ("The Glimmer of a Revolver") Prizes and awards 1954: The City of Kraków Prize for Literature 1963: The Polish Ministry of Culture Prize 1974: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1990: Kościelski Award 1991: Goethe Prize 1995: Herder Prize 1995: Honorary Degree of the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań) 1996: The Polish PEN Club prize 1996: Nobel Prize in Literature 1996: Person of the Year by Wprost 1997: Honorary Resident of the Royal Capital City of Kraków 2005: Gold Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis 2011: Order of the White Eagle Reviews 1998 Boston Review: Poems – New and Collected 1957–1997 by Francis Padorr Brent 2001 The New Republic: "Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska" by Ruth Franklin 2006 The Christian Science Monitor: A fascinating journey with two women poets by Elizabeth Lund 2006 Moondance magazine: Stories/Poems. Plain and Simple. – Mapping the Words of Wislawa Szymborska on Her Latest Book, Monologue of a Dog by Lys Anzia 2006 Sarmatian Review: Wislawa Szymborska's 'Conversation With a Stone' – An Interpretation by Mary Ann Furno 2006 Words Without Borders: Monologue of a Dog – New Poems of Wislawa Szymborska by W. Martin 2015 All roads will lead you home Poetic Alchemy: Wislawa Szymborska’s Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wally Swist [vacpoetry.org/journal/] See also List of female Nobel laureates List of Nobel laureates in Literature List of Polish Nobel laureates List of Polish-language poets Wisława Szymborska Award Polish Writers on Writing featuring Wislawa Szymborska. Edited by Adam Zagajewski (Trinity University Press, 2007). References External links Wislawa Szymborska: Including biography and Nobel speech – NobelPrize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1996 The poet and the world List of Works Wisława Szymborska at Encyclopædia Britannica Wisława Szymborska poems and biography at poezja.org 1923 births 2012 deaths Jagiellonian University alumni Deaths from lung cancer Deaths from cancer in Poland Nike Award winners Nobel laureates in Literature People from Kórnik Polish essayists Polish Nobel laureates Polish United Workers' Party members Women Nobel laureates Writers from Kraków Polish women poets Polish women essayists Communist women writers 20th-century Polish poets 20th-century Polish women writers 21st-century Polish poets 20th-century essayists 21st-century essayists Herder Prize recipients 21st-century Polish women writers The New Yorker people Polish atheists Polish translators French–Polish translators Occasional poets