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.

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, 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.

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 ...

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 ...

An obituary in the Aug. 15 paper was unclear; Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz's book "The Captive Mind" was published in English in 1953. His poetry was not translated to English until 1973. (Published ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But there is at least a grain of truth in it: Many people, not just Milosz himself, must have thought, "It can't be true" on learning that the then-69-year-old Lithuanian-born poet and author, who ...