New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Author(s): Milosz, Czeslaw

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, Year: 2001

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He
worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during
World War II, after which he was stationed in Paris as a cultural
attache from Poland. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he
accepted a position at the University of California at Berkeley. He was
awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, and is a member of
the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.