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Joseph Brodsky. Appearance. In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Brodsky. For the American civil rights lawyer, see Joseph R. Brodsky.
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.
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.
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.
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel laureate. He is considered one of the most important poets of the late 20th century. His work continues to be studied and admired for its formal mastery, intellectual rigor, and unflinching exploration of exile, memory, and the human condition.
