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Joseph Brodsky. Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky [note 1] ( / ˈbrɒdski /; Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский [ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbrotskʲɪj] ⓘ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
- Andrei Basmanov (born 1967), Anastasia Kuznetsova (born 1972), Anna Brodskaya (born 1993)
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Joseph Brodsky (born May 24, 1940, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died January 28, 1996, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) was a Russian-born American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems.
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Joseph Brodsky was a poet, translator, essayist, and playwright who wrote in Russian and English. He was reviled and persecuted by the Soviet authorities while the Western literary establishment lauded him as one of the finest poets working in the Russian language. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and was Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991.
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Learn about the life and work of Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet who was exiled from the Soviet Union and became a US poet laureate. Explore his poems, essays, and related poets on this web page.
Jan 29, 1996 · Joseph Brodsky, the persecuted Russian poet who settled in the United States in the early 1970's, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and became his adopted country's poet laureate, died...
Learn about Joseph Brodsky, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, essayist and translator, who challenged the Soviet system with his anti-establishment and non-conformist poetry. Discover his biography, his works, his exile and his legacy.
Joseph Brodsky died in January of 1996, at the age of 55, from a heart attack. He was buried in the Isola di San Michele cemetery in Venice, Italy. Today he is best known for the poetry collection, A Part of Speech , and volume of essays , Less Than One.
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