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Born June 30, 1911
Died August 14, 2004 (aged 93) • Kraków • Poland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1980)
Notable Works “Native Realm” • “Ocalenie” • “Poemat o czasie zastyglym” • “The Captive Mind” • “The Issa Valley” • “The Seizure of Power”
Movement / Style catastrophism

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Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
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