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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. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Czesław Miłosz is the 304th most popular writer (up from 320th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Lithuania 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Czesław Miłosz ranks 304 out of 7,302. Before him are Alphonse Daudet, François de La Rochefoucauld, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Guillaume de Machaut, Arthur Miller, and Shams Tabrizi. After him are Alberto Moravia, Chrétien de Troyes, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Robert Musil, Claudius Aelianus, and J. M. G. Le Clézio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Czesław Miłosz ranks 12. Before him are Georges Pompidou, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Todor Zhivkov. After him are Nino Rota, William Golding, Mikhail Botvinnik, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Louise Bourgeois, and Milovan Đilas. Among people deceased in 2004, Czesław Miłosz ranks 9. Before him are Marlon Brando, Jacques Derrida, Ahmed Yassin, Juliana of the Netherlands, Ray Charles, and Estée Lauder. After him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francis Crick, Peter Ustinov, P. V. Narasimha Rao, and Susan Sontag.

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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), Emmanuel Levinas (1906), and Vytautas (1352). After him are Gediminas (1275), Mindaugas (1203), Hermann Minkowski (1864), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Romain Gary (1914), and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Czesław Miłosz ranks 1. After him are Romain Gary (1914), Simon Dach (1605), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Vydūnas (1868), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Tomas Venclova (1937), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), and Žemaitė (1845).

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