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Milosz, Czeslaw

Country/Region:
Poland, Lithuania
Born:
June 30, 1911
Dead:
August 14, 2004
Genres:
Poetry, Miscellaneous prose
Portrait of Czeslaw Milosz Photo: akg-images / Bruni Meya
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Polish author and Nobel Prize laureate born and raised in the village of Šeteniai, Lithuania, the Russian Empire. His father, Aleksander, was an engineer. Both parents were Lithuanian, from noble families with strong links to Poland; the family had spoken Polish for three hundred years. Czeslaw Milosz grew up in a multicultural, tolerant environment and was fluent in Lithuanian, Russian, English and French.

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