Czesław Miłosz
Poet, Author
1911 – 2004
Who was Czesław Miłosz?
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. After serving as a cultural attaché for the Republic of Poland, he defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind is a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Miłosz later became an American citizen and was awarded the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1911
Šeteniai - Also known as
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Miłosz, Czesław
- John Syruć
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Janina Miłosz
(1944/01 - 1986) - Carol Thigpen
(1992 - 2002/08/15)
- Janina Miłosz
- Children
- Religion
- Roman Catholic Church
- Ethnicity
- Polish American
- Poles
- Nationality
- Lithuania
- Poland
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Vilnius University
- Employment
- Professor, University of California, Berkeley
(1961 - 1998)
- Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Vilnius
- Died
- Aug 14, 2004
Kraków - Resting place
- Skałka
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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