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Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".
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culture · Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004) · poet · diplomat · writer · essayist · translator · pedagogue · university teacher · literary historian · also Czesław Miłosz, Czeslaw Milosz, Miłosz
Born 30 June 1911 · Died 14 August 2004 · Q45970
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2013· 1 entry
A primary school in Vilnius was named for Miłosz, joining schools in Mierzecice, Poland, and Schaumburg, Illinois, that bear his name
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2011· 1 entry
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė stressed that Miłosz's works "unite the Lithuanian and Polish people and reveal how close and how fruitful the ties between our people can be"
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2004· 6 entries
Died 2004-08-14.
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“Lubiłem twoją aksamitną yoni, Annalena, długie podróże w delcie twoich nóg.Dążenie w górę rzeki do twego bijącego serca przez coraz dziksze prądy sycone światłem chmielu i czarnych powojów.I naszą gwałtowność i triumfalny śmiech i pośpieszne ubieranie się w środku nocy żeby iść kamiennymi schodami górnego miasta.”
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“Szaleństwo tak żyć bez uśmiechuI dwa powtarzać wyrazyZwrócone do was, umarli,Do was, których udziałemMiało być wesele”
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“Nie chciałem kochać tak,Nie było to moim zamiarem.Nie chciałem litować się tak,Nie było to moim zamiarem.”
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“Czynów myśli i ciała,Pieśni, uczt.Dwa ocalone wyrazy:Prawda i sprawiedliwość.”
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“Nie tylko serdecznie lubiły się nasze skóry. I genitalia nasze, jakby dla siebie stworzone.”
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Vilnius (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Śląski Wawrzyn Literacki (2000).
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Claimed, "I was born in the very center of Lithuania and so have a greater right than my great forebear, Mickiewicz, to write 'O Lithuania, my country
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1999· 1 entry
“Language is the only homeland.”
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Nike Award (1998).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic) (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Was made an honorary citizen of Kraków
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1992· 4 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna (1992).
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Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at the Vytautas Magnus University (1992).
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Miłosz married Carol Thigpen, an academic at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
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Miłosz was made an honorary citizen of Lithuania, where his birthplace was made into a museum and conference center
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1991· 1 entry
Miłosz visited for the first time since 1939
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1989· 5 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1989).
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Awarded Righteous Among the Nations (1989).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (1989).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1989).
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Miłosz was named one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust, in recognition of his efforts to save Jews in Warsaw during World War II
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1988· 1 entry
Miłosz's Collected Poems appeared in English; it was the first of several attempts to collect all his poetry into a single volume
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1986· 1 entry
Miłosz's wife, Janina, died
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1981· 2 entries
The critic John Bayley wrote, "nationality is not a thing [Miłosz] can take seriously; it would be hard to imagine a greater writer more emancipated from even its most subtle pretensions"
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Miłosz was appointed the Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, where he was invited to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1980).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1978).
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The Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky called Miłosz "one of the great poets of our time; perhaps the greatest"
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1976).
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1970· 1 entry
Mocked protesters who claimed to be demonstrating for peace and love: "Talk to me about love when they come into your cell one morning, line you all up, and say 'You and you, step forward—it’s your time to die—unless
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1969· 1 entry
Miłosz's textbook The History of Polish Literature was published in English, the language in which it was written
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1968· 1 entry
When Miłosz was listed as a signatory of an open letter of protest written by poet and counterculture figure Allen Ginsberg and published in The New York Review of Books, Miłosz responded by calling the letter "dangerous
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1964· 1 entry
“They Will Place There Telescreens”
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1963· 1 entry
“And the City Stood in Its Brightness”
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1960· 1 entry
Miłosz was offered a position as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley
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1956· 1 entry
Miłosz and Janina were married
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1953· 1 entry
When Janina and the children joined him in France
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1951· 1 entry
And was greeted by crowds with a hero's welcome
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1949· 1 entry
Miłosz visited Poland for the first time since joining its diplomatic corps and was appalled by the conditions he saw, including an atmosphere of pervasive fear of the government
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1948· 1 entry
Miłosz arranged for the Polish government to fund a Department of Polish Studies at Columbia University
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1947· 1 entry
Miłosz's son, Anthony, was born in Washington, D
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1945· 1 entry
“I do not regret those years in Warsaw, which was, I believe, the most agonizing spot in the whole of terrorized Europe. Had I then chosen emigration, my life would certainly have followed a very different course. But my knowledge of the crimes which Europe has witnessed in the twentieth century would be less direct, less concrete than it is”
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1943· 1 entry
Andrzej transported the Polish Jew Seweryn Tross and his wife from Vilnius to Warsaw
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1942· 1 entry
Miłosz arranged for the publication of an anthology of Polish poets, Invincible Song: Polish Poetry of War Time, by an underground press
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1934· 2 entries
Graduated with a law degree, and the poetry group Żagary disbanded
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Studied at Vilnius University, magister degree (1934).
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1932· 1 entry
“Opis: w 1932 w liście do Stanisława Stommy.”
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1931· 1 entry
Visited Paris, where he first met his distant cousin, Oscar Milosz, a French-language poet of Lithuanian descent who had become a Swedenborgian
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1919· 1 entry
During which Miłosz's father was involved in a failed attempt to incorporate the newly independent Lithuania into the Second Polish Republic, resulting in his expulsion from Lithuania and the family's move to what was th
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1917· 1 entry
Miłosz's brother, Andrzej, was born
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1914· 1 entry
Miłosz's father was conscripted into the Russian army, tasked with engineering roads and bridges for troop movements
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-06-30.
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