Awards & Winners

Czes?aw Mi?osz

Date of Birth 30-June-1911
Place of Birth Å eteniai
(Lithuania)
Nationality Poland, United States of America
Also know as Czeslaw Milosz, Jan Syruć, autor "Ocalenia", Česlovas Milašius
Profession Poet, Essayist, Translator, Writer
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet-diplomat, prose writer, and translator of Lithuanian origin. His World War II-era sequence, The World, is a collection of twenty "naive" poems. After serving as a cultural attaché for the Republic of Poland, he defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book, The Captive Mind, is a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Miłosz later became an American citizen. He was awarded the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. He also was named a Puterbaugh Fellow in 1999.

Awards by Czes?aw Mi?osz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Czes?aw Mi?osz.

2001


Nominations 2001 »

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry [null]

1980


Nobel Prize in Literature
(who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts.)

1978


Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Nominations 1978 »

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1976


Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Poetry)

Nominations 1976 »

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1972


Nominations 1972 »

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature