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Czesław Miłosz

ID: OS-000701-P/67206

Czesław Miłosz

First name:

Czesław

Last Name:

Miłosz

Parents:

Aleksander Miłosz i Weronika z Kunatów

Crest:

Lubicz

Date of birth:

30-06-1911

Place of birth:

Szetejnie

Date of death:

14-08-2004

Place od death:

Kraków

Age:

Profession:

diplomat, poet, historian, novelist, translator

Honours and awards:

National Medal of Arts (1989), Medal „Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata” (1989), Order Orła Białego (1994), Order Wielkiego Księcia Litewskiego Giedymina II stopnia (1995)

Biography:

Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), born in Szetejnie, Polish poet, essayist, prose writer, historian, translator and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner for literature (1980), graduate of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, professor at the University of California at Berkley, selected works: Three Winters (1936 ), Five Poems (1981 ), The Separate Notebooks (1985), Seeking the Homeland (1992), Issa Valley (1955).