open
Upgrade to a better browser, please.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Authors

Czeslaw Milosz

Added By: Engelbrecht
Last Updated: Engelbrecht


Czeslaw Milosz

Search for this author through IndieBound.org Search for this author on Amazon.com Search for this author on Amazon.co.uk
Full Name: Czeslaw Milosz
Born: June 30, 1911
Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died: August 14, 2004
Kraków, Poland
Occupation: Writer
Nationality: Polish American
Links:



Biography

Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems. Following the war, he served as Polish cultural attaché in Paris and Washington, D.C., then in 1951 defected to the West. His nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) became a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He became a U.S. citizen in 1970. In 1978 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 1980 the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1999 he was named a Puterbaugh Fellow. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, he divided his time between Berkeley, California, and Kraków, Poland.


Works in the WWEnd Database

 Non Series Works

 (2012)