The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980
Awarded on: 1980-10-09
"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
Czesław Miłosz
Born: 1911-06-30 in Śeteniai, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
Gender: male
Field: Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Biography
Czesław Miłosz 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".