Czeslaw milosz biography meaning

Polish-American poet of Lithuanian origin, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1980. Date of Birth: 30.06.1911 Country: Poland

Biography of Czeslaw Milosz

Early Life and Education

Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish-American poet of Lithuanian descent, was born in the town of Szetejnie in Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire.

Czeslaw milosz pronunciation

Coming from a Polish background, his father, Alexander, and mother, Veronica Kunat, lived in a multicultural country with diverse traditions. As a result, Milosz spoke not only his native Polish but also Lithuanian, Yiddish, and Russian.

When the German army captured Lithuania in 1914, Milosz's father, an engineer, was mobilized, and the Milosz family began a journey to the east alongside the czarist army. They wandered for six difficult years through wars and revolutions until a peace treaty was signed between Soviet Russia and Poland in 1920.
After the war, the Milosz family settled in Vilnius (now Vilnius), a multicultural city t