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 ...

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 ...

Abecedarium: A primer for learning the alphabet. In the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz's enlightening if grim new abecedarium for grown-ups, "Milosz's ABC's," "A" doesn't stand for "apple," ...

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. He ...

In the 1960s, long before he won the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature, the Lithuanian Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz was teaching at Cal and living up on Berkeley’s Grizzly Peak Boulevard. He pondered the ...

“What occurred in Poland was an encounter of a European poet with the hell of the twentieth century, not hell’s first circle, but a much deeper one,” the Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz declared in his ...

HE WAS a poet who spanned his century. Born in a Lithuanian-Polish province of tsarist Russia, Czeslaw Milosz died having seen the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian empires rise and fall, while his two ...

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 ...