Joseph Brodsky
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Birth Date 24 May 1940
Death Date 28 January 1996
Personal Name Joseph Brodsky
Alternate Names
- Joseph BRODSKY
- Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskiĭ
- I. Brodskij
- Joseph A. Brodsky
- Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
Joseph (Iosif) Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.