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Polish-American Nobel laureate for literature

Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American literary figure who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature and is considered the greatest modern Polish writer.:^[1][2] Miłosz's transition from Polish-language texts to English reflects his tumultuous political background.

Miłosz passed, like Poland itself, through the Russian Empire, the post-war Polish-Lithuanian War, the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Warsaw Uprising (during which Miłosz wrote and edited for the Polish resistance),^[2][3] and post-war communism under Stalin.

During this final period, Miłosz worked as a diplomat in Paris, where he eventually defected and received asylum in France. In 1960, he moved to the United States to work as a visiting lecturerer at the University of California, Berkeley where he met many of the poets with whom he would later collaborate to translate his poetry into English.

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