Yahoo! News - Nobel Laureate Poet Czeslaw Milosz Dies
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.
Prime Minister Marek Belka called Milosz "a great Pole" Saturday.
"With his heart and pen he showed us the way, explained reality, and prompted us to do good," Belka told the Polish news agency PAP.