The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987
Awarded on: 1987-10-22
"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
Joseph Brodsky
Born: 1940-05-24 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Gender: male
Field: Russian poet (1940–1996)
Biography
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist.