Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz, born on 30 June 1911 in Szetejnie, now in Lithuania, into a family of Polonised lesser nobility, studied literature and then law in Wilno and published his first poems in 1930. During the occupation, he took part in the underground literary life of Warsaw. A cultural attaché of People's Poland in Washington and Paris, he asked for asylum in France in 1951, then taught from 1961 to 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Nobel Prize in 1980 and died in Kraków on 14 August 2004.

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• EssayThe Captive MindZniewolony umysłCzesław Miłosz · 1953Literature