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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. 1940–1996. Poet, translator, essayist, and playwright Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky was reviled and persecuted by officials in his native Soviet Union while the Western literary establishment lauded him as one of the finest poets working in the Russian language.
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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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...
Celebrated as the greatest Russian poet of his generation, Brodsky authored nine volumes of poetry, as well as several collections of essays, and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His first book of poetry in English translation appeared in 1973.
Joseph Brodsky was a poet, an essayist and a translator. His poetry stood out for its fundamentally new language. The themes and the style of the poet were the source of his disagreement with...
"Joseph Brodsky, a Russian-American poet, was born in St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad). A disciple of Anna Akhmatova, he began writing poetry in 1955. He was first denounced by the state (for decadence and modernism, among other charges) in 1963 and was exiled by Soviet authorities in 1972.
