Brodsky, Joseph
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| born on | 24 May 1940 at 16:50 (= 4:50 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Leningrad, Russian Federation, 59n55, 30e18 | ||||
| Timezone | MSK h3e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   03°13'   11°53 Asc. 18°32'
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Biography
Russian poet and essayist.
Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan.
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.
He died 28 January 1996.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Auden, W.H. (born 21 February 1907)
- friend relationship with Walcott, Derek (born 23 January 1930)
Source Notes
Starkman quotes Pavel Globa: " birth time from his mother's sister"
http://www.globa.ru/brodskij-iosif-aleksandrovich/
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Awards : Nobel prize
