Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1987
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Joseph Brodsky

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1987
for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity
Citizenship
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Languages
English, Russian
date of birth
5/24/1940
place of birth
Saint Petersburg
date of death
1/28/1996
place of death
Brooklyn
Lived
55 years
occupation
  • essayist
  • lecturer
  • university teacher
  • playwright
  • translator
  • writer
  • dramaturge
  • poet
  • librettist
field of work
  • translation from English
  • translation from Polish
  • translation from Spanish
  • literary activity
  • literary translation
  • lyric poetry
  • drama
  • belletristic literature
  • poetry
educated at
  • Annenschule
  • Clare Hall
employer
  • Mount Holyoke College
  • University of Michigan
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
    • start time: 1971
notable work
  • Gorbunov and Gorchakov
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