Oscar Milosz
Poet
French-Lithuanian poet who represented Lithuania at the League of Nations. His literary works include Les Arcanes (poems), L'Amoureuse Initiation (novel), and Contes et Fabliaux de la vieille Lithuanie (Lithuanian folk tales).
He began writing poetry in 1894. He published his first work, Le Poeme des Decadences, in 1899.
His poetry is known for its imagery of loneliness and alchemy.
He was born near Belarus to a Russian army officer father and a Polish-Jewish mother.
He was a cousin of Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz.