Czeslaw Milosz passed away
 

Great Polish poet nobelist.


Milosz had lived in Krakow since the fall of the Iron Curtain allowed him to return home after almost 30 years in exile in France and the United States, a time in which he became a prominent symbol for anti-communist dissidents.

He was awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1980, an honor that coincided with the emergence of the Solidarity worker protest movement that shook communist rule in Poland.

Milosz's best-known works include "The Captive Mind," a study of the plight of intellectuals under communist dictatorship. It brought him international fame in the early 1950s.



http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040814_465.html

Most of you didn't know him, but now you do :)

Sad thing is that LOTS of famous people died in Poland this year. :(