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Czesław Miłosz
Born June 30, 1911 Šeteniai, Russian EmpireDied August 14, 2004, in Kraków, Poland
He was a Lithuanian-Polish poet, prose writer, essayist and translator. In 1961 he became a professor of Polish literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1980 won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1951, as cultural attaché of the communist People's Republic of Poland in Paris, he broke with the government and obtained political asylum in France. In 1953 he received the Prix Littéraire Européen (European Literary Prize).
In 1960 Miłosz went to the United States, and in 1970 he became U.S. citizen. In 1961 he began his professorship at Berkeley.
Czesław Miłosz is honored, at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust, as one of the "Righteous among the Nations."
He spent the last days of his life in Kraków, Poland. He has been burried there.
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Lithuania 2011, 18 VI |
Sweden 1986, 23 IV |
Zambia 2002, 11 II |
