POLAND 2011 SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PHILATELIC FOLDER: 100TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF CZESLAW MILOSZ NOBEL PRIZE WINNER LITERATURE POET WRITER.
ISSUED: 30 JUNE 2011
THIS FOLDER CONTAINS ONE MINIATURE SHEET AND ONE FDC ALSO WITH A MINIATURE SHEET WHICH HAVE FISCHER CATALOGUE NUMBER: Fi BLOK 230
THIS FOLDER IS WRITTEN IN THE POLISH LANGUAGE.
Please note: This is a stock scan and you will receive miniature sheets with different numbers.
THESE FOLDERS WERE ISSUED BY THE POLISH POST OFFICE AND WERE NOT EASILY AVAILABLE. THEY ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN SO DON'T MISS THE CHANCE TO OWN ONE.
THESE FOLDERS ARE RARELY OFFERED FOR SALE. THEY ARE VERY ATTRACTIVE AND ARE PRODUCED TO A VERY COLLECTABLE HIGH QUALITY.
CONSIDERING THE ENORMOUS WORLDWIDE DEMAND FOR THIS TYPE OF ITEM, THEY WILL SOON BECOME A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM.
THIS WONDERFUL SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION FOLDER, IN MINT NEVER HINGED CONDITION, IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS POLAND, NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, POEMS, POET, AUTHOR, WRITER, FAMOUS POLES AND THEMATIC COLLECTORS AND WILL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who “voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”.
Miłosz survived the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II and became a cultural attaché for the Polish government during the postwar period. When communist authorities threatened his safety, he defected to France and ultimately chose exile in the United States, where he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His poetry—particularly about his wartime experience—and his appraisal of Stalinism in a prose book, The Captive Mind, brought him renown as a leading émigré artist and intellectual.
Throughout his life and work, Miłosz tackled questions of morality, politics, history, and faith. As a translator, he introduced Western works to a Polish audience, and as a scholar and editor, he championed a greater awareness of Slavic literature in the West. Faith played a role in his work as he explored his Catholicism and personal experience. He wrote in Polish and English.
Miłosz died in Kraków, Poland, in 2004. He is interred in Skałka, a church known in Poland as a place of honor for distinguished Poles.
