National award for Krakow poet
The poet, translator and literary critic Wisława Szymborska has received Poland’s highest honour in Krakow.
Szymborska attended a ceremony at Wawel Castle, to receive the Order of the White Eagle from President Bronisław Komorowski on January 17.
Szymborska was born in Prowent on July 2 1923. She moved to Kraków in 1931 and has lived in the city ever since. She has published 250 poems, and translated French poetry and other works into Polish.
The Order of the White Eagle is just one among many honours for Szymborska. She received the Krakow Prize for Literature in 1954, the Polish Ministry of Culture Prize in 1963, the Goethe Prize in 1991, and the Herder Prize in 1995 when she was also made an honorary Doctor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The following year she was awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Polish PEN Club Prize.