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Born May 24, 1940 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Active 1970–1996 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Rome Prize, Knight of the Legion of Honour, honorary citizen of Saint Petersburg, United States Poet Laureate, Golden Wreath
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with…