Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)

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Lived 1911–2004, aged 93

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Aged 93

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Polish poet who picked up the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature for writing about people caught in the crossfire of 20th-century upheaval. Miłosz worked as a diplomat and translator, but the verses—written mostly in Polish—are what stuck around.

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Czesław Miłosz 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 Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".

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