Czesław Miłosz was born on 30 June 1911 in Šeteniai. A Polish poet, essayist and translator, Milosz was born in what is now Lithuania and lived through the Second World War in Warsaw. After serving in the diplomatic service of communist Poland, he defected in 1951 and eventually settled in the United States, teaching Slavic literature at Berkeley. His book The Captive Mind analyzed how intellectuals accommodate totalitarianism, and his poetry dealt with memory, history and moral witness. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and after the end of communism he returned to live partly in Krakow, where he died.
Before and after
- 18 May 1911Death of Gustav Mahler
- 4 June 1911Construction of Altare della Patria
- 13 June 1911Birth of Luis Walter Alvarez
- 16 June 1911Founding of IBM
- 30 June 1911Birth of Czesław Miłosz
- 5 July 1911Birth of Georges Pompidou
- 16 July 1911Birth of Ginger Rogers
- 24 July 1911Hiram Bingham reaches Machu Picchu
- 25 August 1911Birth of Võ Nguyên Giáp
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The era
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