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  1. Joseph Brodsky - Wikipedia. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. May 20, 2024 · Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-born American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems. Brodsky left school at age 15 and thereafter began to write poetry while working at a wide variety of jobs.

  4. Biographical. Joseph Brodsky was born in 1940, in Leningrad, and began writing poetry when he was eighteen. Anna Akhmatova soon recognized in the young poet the most gifted lyric voice of his generation.

  5. Jan 28, 1996 · Joseph Brodsky. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987. Born: 24 May 1940, Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia) Died: 28 January 1996, New York, NY, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA. Prize motivation: “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity” Language: English; Russian. Prize share: 1/1.

  6. Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad on May 24, 1940. He left school at the age of fifteen, taking jobs in a morgue, a mill, a ship’s boiler room, and a geological expedition. During this time, Brodsky taught himself English and Polish and began writing poetry.

  7. Dec 12, 2003 · Iosif Brodskiy was born in Leningrad in 1940 and died in New York in 1996 as Joseph Brodsky. Between the two spellings of his name lies one of the more dramatic human and poetic destinies in 20th century Russia – a country rich in drama.