Joseph Brodsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Brodsky

Russian-American poet

Date of Birth: 24-May-1940

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1996

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, author, dramaturge, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; Russian: ??´??? ??????´??????? ???´????? [?'os??f ?l??'ksandr?v??t? 'brotsk??j] (listen); 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly advised" to emigrate) from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W.
H.
Auden and other supporters.
He taught thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and at universities including Yale, Columbia, 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.According to Professor Andrey Ranchin of Moscow State University: “Brodsky is the only modern Russian poet whose body of work has already been awarded the honorary title of a canonized classic...
Brodsky's literary canonization is an exceptional phenomenon.
No other contemporary Russian writer has been honored as the hero of such a number of memoir texts; no other has had so many conferences devoted to them”.