Czesław Miłosz
Writing
June 30, 1911
Died August 14, 2004 (93 years old)
Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Seteniai, Lithuania]
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Acting Credits
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 go...
