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Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 June 1911
- Died
- 14 August 2004
- Place of death
- Kraków
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Czesław
- Family name
- Miłosz
- Father
- Aleksander Miłosz
- Child
- Anthony Milosz, Peter Milosz
- Sibling
- Andrzej Miłosz
- Genre
- prose
- Field of work
- fiction, literature, history of literature, translation, diplomacy
- Occupation
- poet, diplomat, writer, essayist, translator, pedagogue, university teacher, literary historian
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- Poland, United States, Lithuania
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Righteous Among the Nations, Guggenheim Fellowship, Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic), National Medal of Arts, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, Nike Award, Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, honorary doctor of Harvard University
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- coat of arms
- Lubicz
- different from
- Jerzy Mizgalski, Jacek Kiełpiński
- diplomatic mission sent
- Embassy of Poland in Paris
- educated at
- Vilnius University
- employer
- University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Polish Radio Wilno, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
- family
- House of Miłosz
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- influenced by
- Heraclitus, Augustine of Hippo, Emmanuel Swedenborg, William Blake, Adam Mickiewicz, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Shestov, Oscar Milosz, Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil
- IPA transcription
- /ˈt͡ʂɛswafˈmiwɔʂ/
- member of
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Polish Academy of Learning, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich, Żagary, Akademicki Klub Włóczęgów Wileńskich
- name in native language
- Czesław Miłosz
- notable work
- The Captive Mind, Campo di Fiori, Piosenka o końcu świata, A Treatise on Poetry, Q9208811, Q18425219, Q24946140, Q24946663, Ocalenie
- place of burial
- Crypt of Merit at Skałka
- topic's main category
- Category:Czesław Miłosz
- unmarried partner
- Jadwiga Waszkiewicz
- work location
- France, United States, Poland
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