Czesław Miłosz
1911 – 2004 · Poland · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1980
The Captive Mind dissected intellectual submission to totalitarianism.
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- Olga Tokarczuk
1962 · Literature
The Polish moral essay-novel tradition runs from Miłosz's Captive Mind.
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