Miłosz, Czesław

Czesław Miłosz, poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate, was born on June 30, 1911, in Šeteniai (Szetejnie), Lithuania, and died on August 14, 2004, in Kraków, Poland, at the age of 93. Miłosz began to publish poetry while studying law at Vilnius University. After the Second World War, Miłosz became a cultural attaché for the People's Republic of Poland in New York and Washington, D.C. He then accepted a post in France in 1950. Increasingly estranged from the Polish government, he defected in 1951, obtaining political asylum in France. He then emigrated to the United States in 1960, where he became Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued to travel and write extensively after his retirement from teaching in 1978. From 1981 on he traveled to Poland regularly and moved to Kraków in 2000, where he resided until his death.

From the description of Czesław Miłosz papers, 1880-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702153044

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