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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 724,735 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Czesław Miłosz is the 338th most popular writer (up from 384th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 9th 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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  • 720k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Czesław Miłosz ranks 338 out of 5,755. Before him are Pierre Beaumarchais, Louise Glück, Gerhart Hauptmann, Gao Xingjian, Napoleon Hill, and Philip Roth. After him are Sayyid Qutb, Appian, Friedrich Schlegel, O. Henry, Jorge Amado, and Wilhelm Grimm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Czesław Miłosz ranks 15. Before him are Władysław Szpilman, Nino Rota, William Golding, Todor Zhivkov, Võ Nguyên Giáp, and Marshall McLuhan. After him are Jack Ruby, Robert Johnson, Mikhail Botvinnik, Tennessee Williams, Melvin Calvin, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Among people deceased in 2004, Czesław Miłosz ranks 11. Before him are Jacques Derrida, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Christopher Reeve, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Françoise Sagan. After him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Susan Sontag, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Peter Ustinov, Ahmed Yassin, and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Czesław Miłosz ranks 7 out of 287. Before him are Władysław II Jagiełło (1362), Józef Piłsudski (1867), Vytautas (1352), Mindaugas (1203), Gediminas (1275), and Emmanuel Levinas (1906). After him are Romain Gary (1914), Algirdas (1296), Emma Goldman (1869), Hermann Minkowski (1864), César Cui (1835), 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), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Tomas Venclova (1937), Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), and Antanas Baranauskas (1835).

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