2012

April:

Formation of the Wisława Szymborska Foundation

As requested in the Poet’s last will and testament, the following were appointed to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees: Teresa Walas, Michał Rusinek and Marek Bukowski

September:

Inauguration of the Foundation: press conference, evening meeting of poets and Wisława Szymborska’s friends at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and technology in Krakow, including a showing of the documentary about the poet, End and Beginning, directed by John Albert Jansen.

October:

Call for submissions for the first Wisława Szymborska Award