Author

Books by Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a Polish-Lithuanian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He lived through both Nazi occupation and the early years of communist Poland before defecting to the West in 1951. He spent much of his later career teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. His other major works include the memoir Native Realm, the poem sequence Bells in Winter, and the philosophical meditation The Land of Ulro. He is considered one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century.