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Czeslaw Milosz: A Poet Remembered (1911-2004)

 
 
Date

April 4, 2005

   
Place

UNESCO

   
Conference Organizer

The American University of Paris

   
Sponsors

A.W. Mellon Foundation

Ambassade de Pologne

Délégation Permanente de Pologne auprès de l'UNESCO

Institut Polonais

 
 
 
 
 

An evening commemorating the life and work in Poland, France, and the United States of Poet & Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz.

 
 
 
 

French Première of the Film:

 

"The Poet Remembers", directed by Jan Nemec and co-produced by PBS San Francisco & Tom Luddy (English Version).

 

 

Followed by Readings & Reminiscences:

 

 

Anthony Milosz

President of the Milosz Institute and the poet's son

 

Henryk Giedroyc

Chairman of the Association Instytut Literacki-Kultura

 

Miroslaw Chojecki

Founder of "Nowa"; Polish underground publisher.

 

Renata Gorczynska

English Co-translator

 

Lucjan Sniadower

Board Member of the Milosz Institute

 

Richard Pevear

Translator & Professor of Comparative Literature at The American University of Paris

 

Ellen Hinsey

American Writer & Poet; Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.