Czesław Miłosz

Writing

Born: 1911-06-30 · Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Seteniai, Lithuania]

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) 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, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called M…