Miłosz wrote all his poetry, fiction and essays in Polish and translated the Old Testament Psalms into Polish. Upon returning, he worked as a commentator at Radio Wilno, but was dismissed for his leftist views. After receiving his law degree that year, he again spent a year in Paris on a fellowship. His first volume of poetry was published in 1934. After graduating from Sigismund Augustus Gymnasium in Vilnius, he studied law at Stefan Batory University and in 1931 he traveled to Paris, where he was influenced by his distant cousin Oscar Milosz, a French poet of Lithuanian descent and a Swedenborgian. Miłosz memorialized his Lithuanian childhood in a 1981 novel, The Issa Valley, and in the 1959 memoir Native Realm. He once said of himself: "I am a Lithuanian to whom it was not given to be a Lithuanian." Milosz was fluent in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, English and French. Miłosz emphasized his identity with the multi-ethnic Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a stance that led to ongoing controversies he refused to categorically identify himself as either a Pole or a Lithuanian.
His brother, Andrzej Miłosz (1917–2002), a Polish journalist, translator of literature and of film subtitles into Polish, was a documentary-film producer who created some Polish documentaries about his famous brother. He was a son of Aleksander Miłosz, a civil engineer, and Weronika, née Kunat. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Ĭzesław Miłosz was born on Jin the village of Šeteniai (Kėdainiai district, Kaunas County) on the border between two Lithuanian historical regions of Samogitia and Aukštaitija in central Lithuania (then part of Russian empire). From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book "The Captive Mind" (1953) is a classic of anti-Stalinism. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship.
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