“The Last Judgement is the Last Judgement, but a human being who spent his life in Russia, has to be, without any hesitation, placed into Paradise.”
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
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Born 24 May 1940 · Died 28 January 1996 · Q862
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2026· 3 entries
The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Joseph Brodsky: ‘The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Joseph Brodsky: ‘The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to…’ - Russian-American poet explains how blame game steals ...
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2025· 1 entry
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Joseph Brodsky, Russian Jewish Poet, Freed from Soviet Imprisonment
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2023· 1 entry
Boston Review: Joseph Brodsky
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2014· 1 entry
Brodsky's controversial poem On the Independence of Ukraine (Russian: На независимость Украины) from the early 1990s (which he did not publish but publicly recited) was repeatedly picked up by state-affiliated Russian me
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2011· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life
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2008· 1 entry
Harper's Magazine: Celebrating the Life of Joseph Brodsky
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1997· 1 entry
A plaque was placed on his former house in St
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1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-01-28.
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“Kejahatan yang lebih buruk daripada membakar buku adalah tidak membaca buku.”
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“For darkness restores what light cannot repair. There we are married, blest, we make once more the two-backed beast and children are the fair excuse of what we're naked for.”
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1995· 1 entry
Gleb Uspensky, a senior editor at the Russian publishing house, Vagrius, asked Brodsky to return to Russia for a tour, but he could not agree
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by University of Silesia in Katowice (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
1997: Brodskii o Tsvetaevoi, Moscow: Nezavisimaia gazeta
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1991· 3 entries
Won Golden Wreath (1991).
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Awarded United States Poet Laureate (1991).
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Brodsky became Poet Laureate of the United States
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1990· 1 entry
While teaching literature in France, Brodsky married a young student, Maria Sozzani, who has a Russian-Italian background; they had one daughter, Anna Brodsky, born in 1993
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1989· 1 entry
Brodsky wrote his last poem to "M
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1987).
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Won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth Russian-born writer to do so
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986).
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His collection of essays, Less Than One, won the National Book Critics Award for Criticism and he was given an honorary doctorate of literature from Oxford University
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
And later two bypass operations, remaining in frail health following that time
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded honorary degree (1978).
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Brodsky was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Yale University, and on 23 May 1979, he was inducted as a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1977).
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(the Soviets having made him stateless upon his expulsion in 1972) and valued the freedoms that life in the United States provided
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1972· 3 entries
While Brodsky was being considered for exile, the authorities consulted mental health expert Andrei Snezhnevsky, a key proponent of the notorious pseudo-medical diagnosis of "paranoid reformist delusion"
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And asked why he had not accepted, he stated that he wished to stay in the country
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Settling in the United States with the help of W
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1971· 2 entries
Brodsky was invited twice to emigrate to Israel
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In Leningrad shortly before Brodsky's emigration and Brodsky plays an important role
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1966· 1 entry
And 1967, most of his work appearing outside the Soviet Union or circulated in secret (samizdat) until 1987
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1965· 2 entries
After protests by prominent Soviet and foreign cultural figures, including Evgeny Evtushenko, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Akhmatova
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Elegy to John Donne and Other Poems was published in London in 1967 by Longmans Green, and A Stop in the Desert was issued in 1970 by Chekhov Publishing in New York
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1964· 1 entry
Finding that his series of odd jobs and role as a poet were not a sufficient contribution to society
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1963· 1 entry
Brodsky's poetry was denounced by a Leningrad newspaper as "pornographic and anti-Soviet"
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1962· 1 entry
In Leningrad, Anna Akhmatova introduced him to the artist Marina Basmanova, a young painter from an established artistic family who was drawing Akhmatova's portrait
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1960· 1 entry
The young Brodsky met Anna Akhmatova, one of the leading poets of the silver age
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1959· 1 entry
In Yakutsk, when walking in that terrible city, I went into a bookstore
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1955· 1 entry
Brodsky began writing his own poetry and producing literary translations
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-05-24.
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