Miłosz, Czesław
Miłosz, Czesław ( 1911 – 2004 ),Polish poet and writer, born on the Polish–Lithuanian borderland of Wilno (Vilnius). He was a leader of the Polish literary avant-garde in the 1930s, and prominent in the Resistance movement. After some years in the diplomatic service, he emigrated to America, settling in California, and teaching at Berkeley. His works include novels, volumes of essays, and poetry, and The Captive Mind ( 1951 ), an apologia for his withdrawal from Poland. He has also translated Shakespeare , Milton , and T. S. Eliot into Polish. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980 . A volume of Collected Poems 1931–1987 was published in 1988 .
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