WRITER

Czesław Miłosz

1911 - 2004

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Czesław Miłosz ( MEE-losh, US also -⁠lawsh, -⁠wosh, -⁠wawsh, Polish: [ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Czesław Miłosz has received more than 773,685 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Czesław Miłosz is the 320th most popular writer (up from 338th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Writer.

Czesław Miłosz is most famous for his book "The Captive Mind" which is about the effects of communism on the intellectual elite in Eastern Europe.

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Notable Works

Native realm
1968
Zdobycie władzy
1955
The Issa Valley
1981
Selected Poems
Poetry
The Polish author utilizes literary humanism to transcend language and culture and convey his understanding of the human mind
1973
Zniewolony umysł
1900
Poems
1980

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Among writers, Czesław Miłosz ranks 320 out of 7,302. Before him are Gertrude Stein, Guillaume de Machaut, Henri Charrière, Ludovico Ariosto, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and Michael Ende. After him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Archilochus, Friedrich Schlegel, J. M. Coetzee, France Prešeren, and Peter Drucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Czesław Miłosz ranks 14. Before him are Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, William Golding, and Nino Rota. After him are Mikhail Botvinnik, Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, Melvin Calvin, Lê Đức Thọ, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Among people deceased in 2004, Czesław Miłosz ranks 11. Before him are Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Françoise Sagan, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Susan Sontag, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Czesław Miłosz ranks 5 out of 328. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Vytautas (1352), and Gediminas (1275). After him are Mindaugas (1203), Emmanuel Levinas (1906), Hermann Minkowski (1864), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), and Pyotr Wrangel (1878).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Czesław Miłosz ranks 1. After him are Romain Gary (1914), Jonas Mekas (1922), Simon Dach (1605), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Tomas Venclova (1937), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930).

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