Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died in Krakow on Wednesday at the age of 88.
Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, died of lung cancer. She began writing during the Nazi regime in Poland and after World War II began publishing poems and books.
She worked for many years for a Polish literary journal and also published articles, essays and stories. Her poems were admired worldwide and have been translated into many languages.