Selected poems;
/ translated by several hands. Introd. by Kenneth Rexroth.
- New York, : Seabury Press , [1973]
- 128 p. ; 22 cm.
- A Continuum book .
Czeslaw Milosz is the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent publications are Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (FSG, 1997) and Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998). He lives in Berkeley, California. (Publisher Provided) Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet, was born in Lithuania in 1911. During World War II, he was a member of the Polish resistance. He served as a Polish diplomat in the late 1940s, but defected to Paris in 1951. In 1961, Milosz became a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley and, later, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures. Milosz's works include Native Realm, Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems 1931-1987, Bells in Winter, A Year of the Hunter, and Roadside Dog. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Winner, Nobel Prize, 1980
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Milosz, Czeslaw (1877 - 1939)
Poetry---Polish Poetry----Translation into English