Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), born in Leningrad, began writing verse around the age of eighteen and translated English and Polish poets into Russian. Tried in 1964 for “social parasitism”, he was sentenced to five years of exile and forced labour in the Arkhangelsk region, of which he served only part. Forced to leave the Soviet Union in 1972, he taught at several American universities, including Columbia and Mount Holyoke. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and died on 28 January 1996.

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• PoetryОстановка в пустынеJoseph Brodsky · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature