Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

Awarded the Prize “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought poetic intensity.”

American poet. Brodsky was born on May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, began writing poetry when he was eighteen. From March 1964 until November 1965, Brodsky lived in northern Russia. He was Poet-in-Residence Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Queens College, Smith College, Columbia University, Cambridge University. In 1978, Brodsky was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Yale University, in 1979, he was inducted as a member of the American Academy Institute of Arts Letters. Brodsky died on January 28, 1996, in USA.
Major Works:
A Halt in the Wilderness (1973); A Part of Speech (1980); Less than One (1986)