- Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
- She was the first female Polish poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- When she was age 8, her family moved to Krakow. During the Nazi occupation, she attended a clandestine school, risking punishment. Later, she studied literature and sociology at the prestigious Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
- Her play, "Into The Empty Sky," at the Trap Door Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2018 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Ensemble.
- She cohabited with Kornel Filipowicz from October 1967 to February 28, 1990 (his death).
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