Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

Awarded the Prize “for who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts.”

American poet, novelist translator. Milosz was born on June 30, 1911 in Seteiniai, Lithuania. He received his degree of laws from the University of Vilna in 1934. His volumes of poetry were published in 1930 for the first time. Between 1946 1951 Milosz was in the Polish diplomatic service in Washington D.C., in Paris where he settled in 1951. In 1960 he became Professor of Slavic Languages Literatures at the University of California at Berkeley. Milosz died on August 14, 2004 in Kraków, Pol.
Major Works:
Poemat O Czasie Zastyglym (1933); The Captive Mind (1953); The Issa Valley (1955); The Seizure of Power (1955); Native Realm (1959); The History of Polish Literature (1969); The L of Ulro (1977)