Remembering Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz was born on 30 June 1911. In 1980, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature with the motivation "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". "O my love, where are they, where are they going The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder." R