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Joseph Brodsky

Also known as

Joseph BRODSKYIosif Aleksandrovich BrodskiĭI. BrodskijJoseph A. BrodskyIosif Aleksandrovich BrodskyIosif BrodskiiIosif BrodskiĭJoseph Brodsky / S. Volkov

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.

Born 1940-05-24

Died 1996-01-28

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL90389A
  • ISNI0000000122779965
  • WikidataQ862
  • VIAF31993687
  • Goodreads11563

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Books by Joseph Brodsky

Total count: 202