Search results
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.
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 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. Brodsky's poetry is characterized by ...
May 20, 2024 · 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.
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.
Dec 12, 2003 · From the age of thirty-two he was a “nomad” – a Virgilian hero, doomed never to return home. When asked why he did not want to go back, Brodsky answered that he didn’t want to visit his home country as a tourist. Or that he didn’t want to go on an invitation from official institutions.
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.
