 Born June 30th 1911 in Szetejnie, Lithuania. A poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He won the Nobel Prize in 1980, and many other prestigious literary awards throughout his life, and has been translated into forty-two languages. He received honorary doctorates from universities in the USA and in Poland, and was made an honorary citizen of Lithuania and the City of Krakow. He spent his school days and university youth in Wilno [Vilnius], where he also made his debut as a poet, and lived out the German occupation in Warsaw. After the war he worked in the diplomatic service of the People’s Republic in the USA and in France until 1951, when he appealed for political asylum in Paris. In 1960 he left for California, where he spent twenty years as a professor of Slavic languages and literature, lecturing... 
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 Job and Forrest Gump My life story [is] the triumph of foolish Jan over his wiser brothers.—Czesław Miłosz, A Year of the Hunter Why not concede that I have not progressed, in my religion, past the Book of Job? With the one difference that Job thought of himself as innocent and I saw guilt in my genes. I was not innocent; I wanted to be innocent, but I couldn’t be. —Czesław Miłosz, Treatise on Theology In the summer of 2002, I conducted a series of interviews with Miłosz in preparation for a biography I was just beginning. Miłosz’s attitude toward the project was, perhaps inevitably, mixed. He had given me his blessing, but he worried nonetheless about the shape his life would take in the hands of a young (at least by his standards) Slavist from California, that is to say, the Land of Ulro. I called...
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