Birth: 1911-06-30
, Šeteniai
Death: 2004-08-14
, Cracóvia
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-Lithuanian poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. Born into a Polish family in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, Miłosz spent most of his adult life in Poland and later in the United States, where he became a university professor.
