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(1940-1996) Poet, Nobel Prize winner. Joseph Brodsky lived in Brooklyn, New York, and, also, he lived near Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1991 to 1992.

Full Name

Joseph Brodsky

Locations

Kings

Author's Timeline


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RESIDENCE

Joseph Brodsky lived in Brooklyn, New York.

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RESIDENCE

Joseph Brodsky lived near Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.

1940

BIRTH

Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky was born in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1940.

1967

LITWORK

Elegy For John Donne and Other Poems
London: Longman.

Selected, introduced, and translated by Nicholas William Bethell.

1973

LITWORK

Selected Poems
New York: Harper & Row.

Translated from the Russian by George L. Kline.

1980

LITWORK

A Part Of Speech
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Poetry.

1981

LITWORK

Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980
London: Anvil Press.

Translated by Alan Meyers.

1986

LITWORK

Less Than One: Selected Essays
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Essay collection, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

1986

LITWORK

History of the Twentieth Century


Poetry.

1987

OTHER

Brodsky was awared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.

1988

LITWORK

To Urania: Selected Poems, 1965-1985
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Poetry.

1989

LITWORK

Marbles: A Play in Three Acts
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Play, translated by Alan Myers with Joseph Brodsky.

1995

LITWORK

On Grief and Reason: Essays
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Essays.

1996

DEATH

Joseph Brodsky died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1996.

1996

LITWORK

So Forth: Poems
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Poetry.

1996

INTERMENT

Joseph Brodsky was interred in the Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Veneto, Italy.

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