Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky ^[1] ( / ? b r ? d s k i / ; Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский [??os??f ?l???ksandr?v??t? ?brotsk??j] ( 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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• List of Russian language poets

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