Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz 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,... Wikipedia

  • Born:  June 30, 1911, Šeteniai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
  • Age at death:  93 years
  • Died:  August 14, 2004, Kraków, Poland
  • Occupation:  Poet, prose writer, professor, translator, diplomat
  • Citizenship:  Lithuania (1918–?), Poland (?–1951), Stateless (1951–1970), United States (from 1970), Poland (from 1995)
  • Notable awards:  Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1978), Nobel Prize in Literature (1980), National Medal of Arts (1989), Order of the White Eagle (1994), Nike Award (1998)
  • Children:  Anthony (born 1947), John Peter (born 1951)
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