Czesław Miłosz - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1980
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Czesław Miłosz

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1980
who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts
Citizenship
United StatesUnited StatesPolandPolandLithuaniaLithuania
Languages
Czech, English, French, Polish, Spanish
date of birth
6/30/1911
place of birth
Šiauliai, Šeteniai
date of death
8/14/2004
place of death
Kraków
Lived
93 years

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occupation
  • essayist
  • pedagogue
  • literary historian
  • university teacher
  • diplomat
  • translator
  • writer
  • poet
field of work
  • diplomacy
  • history of literature
  • translation
  • literature
  • fiction
educated at
  • Vilnius University
    • academic degree: magister degree
    • academic major: law
    • end time: 1934
employer
  • Harvard University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
  • Polish Radio Wilno
position held
  • professor
work location
  • France
  • United States
  • Poland
member of
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Żagary
  • Polish Academy of Learning
  • Akademicki Klub Włóczęgów Wileńskich
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich
notable work
  • Campo di Fiori
  • Piosenka o końcu świata
  • history of Polish literature
  • The Seizure of Power
  • Ziemia Ulro
  • The Captive Mind
  • Ocalenie
  • A Treatise on Poetry
  • The Issa Valley
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