At 4 in the morning on Oct. 9, 1980, Czeslaw Milosz’s phone rang. The caller was a Swedish journalist who informed him that he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. “It can’t ...

Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel laureate and longtime UC Berkeley professor whose emotional and intellectually expansive poetry and prose were colored by his experiences from the wartime horror and ...

During A late night in Krakow, nonagenarian Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz was tipping back the vodka with Jerzy Illg, editor in chief at his Polish publishing house, Znak.

Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize-winning poet who gained international acclaim by conveying the great spiritual and political struggles in postwar Europe and beyond, died Saturday in Krakow, Poland.

Czeslaw Milosz's chiseled poetry and limpid prose bore witness to some of humanity's humblest pleasures and worst atrocities. Milosz's long life took him from his doomed Lithuanian hometown of ...

Born in the early years of the 20th century, Milosz grew up in Wilno, the once and future capital of Lithuania. His mother was Lithuanian, his father Polish. He regarded both their languages as ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz has died at the age of 93 in Krakow, Poland. Milosz served in the Polish diplomatic corps, but defected from the communist state in 1951 and settled in the ...

Since winning the Nobel Prize in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz has worked his way into American literary consciousness more than any other Polish writer. Although his reputation rests primarily on his ...

Yet what Milosz discovered, in his first exile in Paris, were Soviet apologists like Sartre who shunned this poet from the “other Europe.” As Milosz later pointed out, no French institution of higher ...

The poet’s story — told by scholar Cynthia L. Haven in a thought-provoking book, “Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life” — demonstrates how our state allows people to move both further from ...

George Gomori's obituary for Czeslaw Milosz [16 August], excellent though it is, is out-of-date with regard to the poet's publications in English, writes Clive Wilmer.