Czesław Miłosz

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-06-30 (93 years old)

Deathday

2004-08-14

Place of Birth

Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Seteniai, Lithuania]

Czesław Miłosz

Biography

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". Miłosz survived the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II and became a cultural attaché for the Polish government during the postwar period. When communist authorities threatened his safety, he defected to France and ultimately chose exile in the United S...

Acting

Production

1982

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