On this day, a century ago, the great Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania. (Click here to hear his name pronounced.) "The year was 1911. The parish had two churches. To the nearest, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Troy Jollimore, Special To The Washington Post At 4 in the morning on Oct. 9, 1980, Czeslaw Milosz’s phone rang. The caller was a Swedish journalist who ...

In July, 1950, Czeslaw Milosz, the cultural attaché at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., received a letter from Jerzy Putrament, the general secretary of the Polish Writers’ Union. The two men ...

WARSAW, Poland – Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz (search), known for his intellectual and emotional works about some of the worst cruelties of the 20th century, died Saturday, the Polish ...

The title's second space comprises heaven and hell, which have "vanished forever"; without them the blessed cannot "meet salvation" and the damned "find suitable quarters." In mourning, the poet ...

KRAKOW, POLAND — 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. Late in the ...

“He had his home, posthumous, in the town of New Haven,/ In a white building, behind walls,/ Of translucent marble like turtle shell” from Czeslaw Milosz’s “Beinecke Library” So begins Milosz’s poem ...

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 political ...

Most of the tributes and obituaries for Czeslaw Milosz laid due emphasis on his artistic and intellectual prescience concerning fascism and communism. To have survived the Nazi invasion of Poland, and ...

Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, known for his intellectual and emotional works about some of the worst cruelties of the 20th century, died Saturday, the Polish news agency PAP reported.

A major poet, and probably one of the most important of the 20th century, Czeslaw Milosz in 1980 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This was the first such award to a Polish writer since Wladyslaw ...