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  • Poland's Nobel Laureate Milosz Dead at 93

    08/14/2004 4:53:16 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 14 replies · 395+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sat, Aug 14, 2004
    WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Nobel Prize-winning emigre poet, Czeslaw Milosz, died Saturday at his home in the southern Polish city of Krakow at the age of 93, Polish media reported. Long a symbol of opposition to totalitarianism, he received the 1980 Nobel Literary Prize for his lifelong poetic achievements amid the heady atmosphere of the Polish Solidarity movement's bold challenge to Soviet-style communist rule. Initially a supporter of Poland's Soviet-imposed post-war regime, he served in its diplomatic corps from 1945 to 1950 before becoming disillusioned with communism and defecting in 1951. He made his home in France before moving to...