Czesław Miłosz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Czesław Miłosz

Polish poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator. Nobel Prize winner

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1911

Place of Birth: Šeteniai, Kaunas County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 14-Aug-2004

Profession: writer, poet, diplomat, translator, pedagogue, university teacher, essayist

Nationality: United States, Poland, Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Czeslaw Milosz (, also US: , Polish: ['t??swaf 'miw??] (listen); 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
Regarded as one of the great poets of the twentieth century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Swedish Academy, in its Nobel citation, described Milosz as a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".Milosz survived the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II and became a cultural attaché for the Polish government during the post-war period.
When communist authorities threatened his safety, he defected to France and ultimately chose exile in the United States, where he became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
His poetry—particularly about his wartime experience—and his appraisal of Stalinism in a prose book, The Captive Mind, brought him renown as a leading émigré artist and intellectual. Throughout his life and work, Milosz tackled questions of morality, politics, history, and faith.
As a translator, he introduced Western works to a Polish audience, and as a scholar and editor, he championed a greater awareness of Slavic literature in the West.
Faith played a role in his work as he explored his Catholicism and personal experience. Milosz died in Kraków, Poland, in 2004.
He is interred in Skalka, a church that is known in Poland as a place of honor for distinguished Poles.