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Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.

Clare Cavanagh is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern. She received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature for her translations of Polish poetry. (March 2024)

Stanisław Barańczak is a poet, translator, and literary critic. He won the 2007 Nike Award for the best work of Polish literature published in the previous year and the 2009 Silesius Poetry Award for lifetime achievement. He is a professor of Polish language and literature at Harvard University.