Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980, announced October 9, 1980. Czesław Miłosz, “who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”. Czesław Miłosz: born 1911, Śeteniai, Russian Empire (now Lithuania). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).