Wislawa Szymborska

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She was a famous poet from my country who recently died. She was world famous and here's the question - did you ever hear about her? Does her name tell you anything?

I've heard the name somewhere and I'm sorry about her death.

May she rest in peace.

Unfortunatly, the time devoted to her death on the media was very limited, due to the fact that at the same time there was going on the baby Magda case - our Caylee Anthony. The baby got abducted, from her baby carriage or maybe rather that was what mom claimed - it turned out she accidentally killed her and not wanting to admit this, buried her in old ruins and faked an attack on herself by a stranger who later took the baby.

And here there are two most famous poems by Szymborska on death:

http://www.mission.net/poland/warsaw/li ... ms/cat.htm
http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literat ... -1638.html

That you're from Poland? I think that's a Polish name, anyways.

That's really sad. D:

Wisława is a rare name for an old lady. There's a name Wiesława for one, that used to be very common then, but Wisława is uncommon, I never heard about any other women of this name.