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Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, 93, one of the major poets of the violent 20th century whose unflinching view of man's inhumanity was tempered by his love of the world's beauty, died Aug. 14 at his home in Krakow, Poland.

No exact cause of death was reported. His assistant told the Associated Press: "It's death, simply death. It was his time -- he was 93."

His life, forged from the start in the crucible of Russia and Eastern Europe, straddled the chaos and the cataclysms of the century. He spent 30 years in self-imposed exile in France and the United States but returned to Poland in 1989 after the overthrow of Communist rule. His poetry inspired his countrymen for decades before he won the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature, which made him one of the best-read poets in the United States. [...]

• Gazeta Wyborcza [Polish]


• Nobel Prize site


• ibiblio [a reading with sound files]


• Reading Milosz


• American Academy of Poets


• Kirjasto


• NPR [audio]

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