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It is proposed to announce year 2011 the year of famous poet Czeslaw Milosz. This draft resolution has been registered by Valentinas Stundys, head of the Seimas' Committee on Education, Science and Culture, at the Secretariat of the Seimas' sittings, reports ELTA/LETA.

The draft resolution is submitted regarding the fact that the year 2011 marks 100 years since poet's birth and his anniversary is included into the UNESCO calendar of events. In this way, it is also aimed to deepen cultural cooperation between Lithuania and Poland. The Seimas intends to propose the Government to establish a Milosz anniversary celebration commission and draft a public anniversary celebration programme. It is also proposed to provide funds in the state budget for 2011 to commemorate the anniversary of the poet.

Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz was born on 30 June 1911, in Seteniai, Kedainiai district. Ceslovas Milosas studied at Vilnius Zygimantas Augustas school, graduated from the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University in 1934. After the Second World War, he started working as a diplomat in Poland's representation offices in New York and Washington. 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.

Milosas returned to Poland when the Iron Wall collapsed.

The poet died in 2004 at the age of 93 in Krakow and was buried there.