Nobel laureate: Joseph Brodsky
Born: 1940-05-24, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), USSR (now Russia)
Died: 1996-01-28, New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1987
category: literature
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motivation: "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"