Location: National Panthéon, St. Stanislaus Church at Skałka, Kraków, Poland
Photo taken by: Marek
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Polish poet and essayist, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts.
He was born in Lithuania and studied law at the University in Vilnius. He worked as a diplomat for the communist Polish government, but left Poland in 1951 and sought political asylum in France. In 1960 he moved to the United States and worked at the University of California as professor of Slavic Language and Literature. He became an American citizen in 1970, but returned to Poland once the Iron Curtain fell.
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