Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American poet, prose writer, and translator who witnessed the 20th century's major upheavals. Miłosz's poetry explores moral responsibility, historical trauma, and the relationship between poetry and reality. His prose work The Captive Mind analyzed intellectual collaboration with totalitarianism. Miłosz received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and his translation of the Bible into Polish remains influential.
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