Birth: 1940-05-24
, São Petersburgo, Rússia
Death: 1996-01-28
, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, EUA
Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet and essayist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991 to 1992