Czesław Miłosz (/ˈmiːlɒʃ/, also US: /-lɔːʃ, ˈmiːwɒʃ, -wɔːʃ/, Polish: [ˈtʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ]; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". Miłosz died in Kraków, Poland, in 2004. He is interred in Skałka, a church known in Poland as a place of honor for distinguished Poles.