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Maciej Pasztor
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| General Description : | Czesław Miłosz ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship.His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. He defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) is a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| Material | Gold |
| Face value | 4,15 Zloty |
| Catalog code (Michel) | 4527 |
| Catalog code | Polish Stamps Catalog Pl - 4377 |
| Series | Famous polish peoples |
| Print run | 300.000 |
| Issue date | 30/06/2011 |
| Designer | Marzanna Dąbrowska |
| Print technique | Steel engraving |
| Printed by | PWPW SA (Polska Wytwórnia Papierow Wartosciowych SA) |
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