author
O. V. de L. (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz) Milosz
1877–1939
A French-language poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist with roots in Lithuania, he brought Symbolist richness and mystical intensity to everything he wrote. His life also took an unusual turn into diplomacy, representing Lithuania in Paris and at the League of Nations.
2 Audiobooks
Ars magna
by O. V. de L. (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz) Milosz
L'Amoureuse Initiation
by O. V. de L. (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz) Milosz
About the author
Born in 1877 in Czereia, then part of the Russian Empire, O. V. de L. Milosz wrote in French and became known for poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. His work began in the atmosphere of late Symbolism and gradually moved toward a deeply personal spiritual and metaphysical vision.
Alongside his literary career, he served the newly independent Lithuanian state as a diplomat in Paris and represented Lithuania at the League of Nations. That double life—poet and public servant—helps explain why his writing can feel both inward and wide-ranging, blending private revelation with a strong sense of history and identity.
He died in 1939 in Fontainebleau, France. Though less widely known than some of his contemporaries, he remains a distinctive figure in European literature: a writer of intense imagination, religious searching, and lyrical seriousness.