In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Miłosz received the following awards:
- Polish PEN Translation Prize (1974)[77]
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1976)[89]
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1978)[90]
- National Medal of Arts (United States, 1989)[91]
- Robert Kirsch Award (1990)[92]
- Order of the White Eagle (Poland, 1994)[93]
Miłosz was named a distinguished visiting professor or fellow at many institutions, including the University of Michigan and University of Oklahoma, where he was a Puterbaugh Fellow in 1999.[94] He was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[95] the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[96] and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[97] He received honorary doctorates from Harvard University,[98] the University of Michigan,[99] the University of California at Berkeley, Jagiellonian University,[98] Catholic University of Lublin,[100] and Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania.[101] Vytautas Magnus University and Jagiellonian University have academic centers named for Miłosz.[102][103]
In 1992, Miłosz was made an honorary citizen of Lithuania,[104] where his birthplace was made into a museum and conference center.[105] In 1993, he was made an honorary citizen of Kraków.[104]
His books also received awards. His first, A Poem on Frozen Time, won an award from the Union of Polish Writers in Wilno.[106] The Seizure of Power received the Prix Littéraire Européen (European Literary Prize).[107] The collection Roadside Dog received a Nike Award in Poland.[108]
In 1989, Miłosz was named one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust, in recognition of his efforts to save Jews in Warsaw during World War II.[37]
Miłosz has also been honored posthumously. The Polish Parliament declared 2011, the centennial of his birth, the "Year of Miłosz".[98] It was marked by conferences and tributes throughout Poland, as well as in New York City,[109] at Yale University,[110] and at the Dublin Writers Festival,[111] among many other locations. The same year, he was featured on a Lithuanian postage stamp. Streets are named for him near Paris,[112] Vilnius,[113] and in the Polish cities of Kraków,[114] Poznań,[115] Gdańsk,[116] Białystok,[117] and Wrocław.[118] In Gdańsk there is a Czesław Miłosz Square.[119] In 2013, a primary school in Vilnius was named for Miłosz,[120] joining schools in Mierzecice, Poland, and Schaumburg, Illinois, that bear his name.[121][122]
