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Czesław Miłosz
1911 –
2004

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Paris, 1966. Published in The Collected Poems (1988).

Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz, born in 1911, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his numerous collections of poetry and prose, written in his native Polish.

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