![]() ![]() Faith played a role in his work as he explored his Catholicism and personal experience. As a translator, he introduced Western works to a Polish audience, and as a scholar and editor, he championed a greater awareness of Slavic literature in the West. ![]() ![]() Throughout his life and work, Miłosz tackled questions of morality, politics, history, and faith. His poetry-particularly about his wartime experience-and his appraisal of Stalinism in a prose book, The Captive Mind, brought him renown as a leading émigré artist and intellectual. When communist authorities threatened his safety, he defected to France and ultimately chose exile in the United States, where he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Miłosz survived the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II and became a cultural attaché for the Polish government during the postwar period. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]() Czesław Miłosz ( / ˈ m iː l ɒ ʃ/, also US: /- l ɔː ʃ, ˈ m iː w ɒ ʃ, - w ɔː ʃ/, Polish: ( listen) 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. ![]()
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