Czeslaw Milosz is a Nobel Prize winning poet, essayist, and novelist who is considered one of the best poets of his time. He emigrated to the U.S. where he became a citizen in 1970 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Slavic Languages. Milosz wrote several poetry and prose works of art, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His works written in Polish have been translated into English by several translators.