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Czesław Miłosz (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Czesław Miłosz (MEE-wohsh) is one of the greatest twentieth century Polish poets and essayists and one of the most important figures in world literature of his age. He was born on his family’s estate of Šeteiniai (sometimes spelled Szetejnie) in provincial Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) on June 30, 1911, the son of the engineer Aleksandr Miłosz and his wife, Weronika (née Kunat). Between 1913 and 1918 the family lived in Siberia, where Aleksandr Miłosz held a job. They returned to Šeteiniai in the year of the rebirth of the independent Polish state (1918), which...
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