Editing Czesław Miłosz (section)

=== Nobel laureate ===
On 9 October 1980, the Swedish Academy announced that Miłosz had won the Nobel Prize in Literature.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/09/Poet-Czeslaw-Milosz-winner-of-the-1980-Nobel-Prize/3819339912000/|title=Poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize...|website=UPI|language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref> The award catapulted him to global fame. On the day the prize was announced, Miłosz held a brief press conference and then left to teach a class on Dostoevsky.<ref>{{Cite book|oclc=982122195|title=Milosz: A Biography|last=Franaszek, Andrzej|pages=416}}</ref> In his Nobel lecture, Miłosz described his view of the role of the poet, lamented the tragedies of the 20th century, and paid tribute to his cousin Oscar.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1980/Miłosz/lecture/|title=Czeslaw Milosz Nobel Lecture|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref>[[File:Czesław Miłosz 1986 (2).jpg|thumb|150px|Miłosz, 1998|alt=]]

Many Poles became aware of Miłosz for the first time when he won the Nobel Prize.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Merriman|first1=John|last2=Winter|first2=Jay|title="Milosz, Czeslaw (1911–2004)" in Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, vol. 3|date=2006|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0684313702|pages=1765–66}}</ref> After a 30-year ban in Poland, his writing was finally published there in limited selections. He was also able to visit Poland for the first time since fleeing in 1951 and was greeted by crowds with a hero's welcome.<ref>{{Cite book|oclc=982122195|title=Milosz: A Biography|last=Franaszek, Andrzej|pages=430}}</ref> He met with leading Polish figures like [[Lech Wałęsa]] and [[Pope John Paul II]]. At the same time, his early work, until then only available in Polish, began to be translated into English and many other languages.

In 1981, Miłosz was appointed the Norton Professor of Poetry at [[Harvard University]], where he was invited to deliver the [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures]].<ref>{{Cite book|oclc=982122195|title=Milosz: A Biography|last=Franaszek, Andrzej|pages=421}}</ref> He used the opportunity, as he had before becoming a Nobel laureate, to draw attention to writers who had been unjustly imprisoned or persecuted. The lectures were published as ''{{ill|The Witness of Poetry|pl|Świadectwo poezji}}'' (1983).

Miłosz continued to publish work in Polish through his longtime publisher in Paris, including the poetry collections ''[[Hymn of the Pearl (Miłosz)|Hymn of the Pearl]]'' (1981) and ''[[Unattainable Earth]]'' (1986), and the essay collection ''[[Beginning with My Streets]]'' (1986).

In 1986, Miłosz's wife, Janina, died.

In 1988, Miłosz's ''Collected Poems'' appeared in English; it was the first of several attempts to collect all his poetry into a single volume. After the [[History of Poland (1945–1989)|fall of communism in Poland]], he split his time between Berkeley and Kraków, and he began to publish his writing in Polish with a publisher based in Kraków. When [[Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic|Lithuania broke free from the Soviet Union]] in 1991, Miłosz visited for the first time since 1939.<ref>{{Cite book|oclc=982122195|title=Milosz: A Biography|last=Franaszek, Andrzej|pages=438}}</ref> In 2000, he moved to Kraków.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://quarterlyconversation.com/milosz-as-california-poet-i-did-not-choose-california-it-was-given-to-me|title=Milosz as California Poet|last=Haven|first=Cynthia L.|date=4 March 2013|website=The Quarterly Conversation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-14|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814210707/http://quarterlyconversation.com/milosz-as-california-poet-i-did-not-choose-california-it-was-given-to-me|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1992, Miłosz married Carol Thigpen, an academic at [[Emory University]] in Atlanta, Georgia. They remained married until her death in 2002.<ref>{{Cite book|oclc=982122195|title=Milosz: A Biography|last=Franaszek, Andrzej|pages=465}}</ref> His work from the 1990s includes the poetry collections ''[[Facing the River]]'' (1994) and ''{{ill|Roadside Dog|pl|Piesek przydrożny}}'' (1997), and the collection of short prose ''[[Miłosz’s ABC’s]]'' (1997). Miłosz's last stand-alone volumes of poetry were ''{{ill|This (Miłosz)|lt=This|pl|To (tom poetycki)}}'' (2000), and ''[[The Second Space]]'' (2002). Uncollected poems written afterward appeared in English in ''[[New and Selected Poems (Miłosz)|New and Selected Poems]]'' (2004) and, posthumously, in ''[[Selected and Last Poems]]'' (2011).