Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky[1] (/ˈbrɒdski/; Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский [ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbrotskʲɪj] (File:Speaker Icon.svg listen); 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), better known as Joseph Brodsky, was a Russian-American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. He wrote poetry in Russian.
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Muruzi House, Saint Petersburg, where its Brodsky memorial plaque is visible in the middle of the ground floor of the brown building
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Plaque marking where Brodsky stayed in Vilnius
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The suitcase with which Brodsky left his homeland, on 4 June 1972, carrying a typewriter, two bottles of vodka, and a collection of poems by John Donne - today displayed in the Anna Akhmatova Museum, Saint Petersburg
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Brodsky teaching at University of Michigan, c. 1972
Plaque in honour of Brodsky in Venice
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Grave of Brodsky in the Protestant section of the Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Veneto, Italy
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- ↑ Also known as Josip, Josef or Joseph.
